I had a project recently that had a requirement of a frontend, and an admin backend. Pretty normal for an application, but of course the admin had a different layout, set of tabs, etc. I didn’t want to say :layout => ‘admin’ everywhere, so I came up with this (very small) code snippet to make rendering a different layout easy.

def admin_haml(template, options={}) 
  haml(template, options.merge(:layout => :'admin/layout')) 
end

Which I then used in my code like:

get '/admin/users' do
  @users = User.all
  admin_haml :'admin/user/index'
end

This also shows how to have nested directories in the views folder if you were curious. This will look for the view views/admin/users/index.haml, and render it with the layout views/admin/layout.haml.

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