I have a very specific scenario where I need to load and cache the site header and footer from our primary website. This is fairly trivial to do in ERB:  <% cache("footer_#{I18n.locale}", expires_in: 1.week) do %> <%= raw open("https://myserver.com/#{I18n.locale}/remo…

Yes, you can override the set_layout method in application_controller.rb. Take a look at this (unfinished) plugin for an example: https://github.com/scossar/feature-phone-first

Sorry to resurrect this very old topic, hope it is OK. Can we override (in a plugin)? app/views/layouts/application.html.erb Like this: register_asset '../views/layouts/application.html.erb' I suspect the answer is “NO!”… if “no” (because ‘assets’ are not ‘views’ in Rails, so can we have a fut…

Just do it in a theme instead. You can add a standard caching layer in front of whatever API the information is fetched from.

We can use embedded ruby code in a theme? I must be confused… thinking theme work was not the place for embedded ruby. Edit: Just reviewed the following topic and as suspected there is no reference I can find to adding enbedded ruby in a thene :slight_smile: Developing Discourse Themes & Theme…

Rereading… [image] npflood: <%= raw open("https://myserver.com/#{I18n.locale}/remote/footer").read %> I was forgetting about the cache stanza and was assuming this would hit the server for every request, so thought a client-side fetch would also work. Instead, something that could work …

Can I override app/views/layouts/application.html.erb from a plugin?

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npflood (Nate Flood) July 14, 2016, 2:20am 3

This does EXACTLY what I needed. THANKS @simon!

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Can I override app/views/layouts/application.html.erb from a plugin?

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