1. Rails tip: Automatically link a controller’s stylesheet

    March 13, 2010 at 5:59pm

    This is a simple application helper I wrote to reduce the tediousness of linking stylesheets for each controller. It will link the controller’s stylesheet (located at public/stylesheets/[controller_name].css) if it exists but it won’t complain if it doesn’t. I use it in pretty much every Rails project to keep things organized. It’s super simple to set up.

    Simply add this to your application helper (located at app/helpers/application_helper.rb):

    def controller_stylesheet_link_tag
      stylesheet = "#{params[:controller]}.css"
        
      if File.exists?(File.join(Rails.public_path, 'stylesheets', stylesheet))
        stylesheet_link_tag stylesheet
      end
    end

    …and put this in your application layout (located at app/views/layouts/application.html.erb):

    <%= controller_stylesheet_link_tag %>
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