How to get custom layout?

[pboling]

In my last question I was confused about the flash messages not rendering... the reason turns out to be that my custom layout isn't working.

I feel like I already did this before, but I can't figure out how if I did. My rodauth-rails views are being rendered in my Rails' default "applciation" layout, which is highly unsuitable for my rodauth-rails use-case. I see that the render plugin is configured within Rodauth-rails, but I'm not sure how to override that config.

I have a "parent" controller for my rodauth-rails authenticated routes on the Rails side, and I've set layout "roda_api" there, but it doesn't apply to the roda-handled routes of rodauth proper.

I'll try directly overriding the plugin :render next...

[pboling]

Can't get it to work. I see:

  Rendering layout layouts/application.html.erb
  Rendering rodauth/login.html.erb within layouts/application

I tried:

  plugin :render, layout: "../../views/layouts/my_api"

And:

  plugin :render, layout: "my_api"

And a copy of the rodauth-rails internal line, swapping in the name of the alternate layout:

  plugin :render, :escape=>true, :check_paths=>true, :views=>'app/views', :layout=>'layouts/my_api.html'

My layout designations appear to have no effect at all. No errors, and no indication that I've changed anything at all. The layout is simply ignored.

[janko]

rodauth-rails loads the render Roda plugin only to be able to render Rodauth's built-in views, which are in Tilt and within a Roda instance. It only gets the page HTML, and forwards it to a Rails controller, which renders the layout, because that's a Rails view template rendered in Rails view context.

You change the layout in RodauthController, just like you do for normal Rails views, see https://github.com/janko/rodauth-rails/wiki/Different-layout.

[pboling]

It works! Thanks :)

[pboling]

For anyone else ending up here you might have, like I did, two relevant controllers. I had one parent controller for my rodauth-rails routes, and another parent controller for all my routes that were internally protected by rodauth-rails' authentication. I had to set the layout in both of them as they had no relationship to each other!