Rails 3, HowTo - Pass a Setting to the Application.html.erb

Question

Most of my views will required a wrapper of padding 10px,,, but a few will not...

I was thinking of doing something like this in the view controller:

 respond_to do |format|
   format.html { render :layout => true, :padding => 'false' }

And then in the application.html.erb have an IF to not add a padding class if :padding is false... But the above idea doesn't work, the variable padding is not being passed.

Any ideas? Or cleaner/smart solutions? thxs

Answer 1

You need to put them inside the :locals hash:

render :layout => true, :locals => { :padding => false }