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[asecondwill]

Is there a Fae way of handling information in the layout rather than pages? So say a snippet for the footer, copy in the sidebar etc?

Maybe a way to add things to the Root Settings? Or, since that are is a bit hidden for copy, somewhere else?

[jasonfine]

you just need to get creative and model the use case you're thinking of. while it's not technically a "page" you could leverage fae pages/content blocks to do this, or you could use regular old straight up models to do the same thing.

so you scaffold a fae page called "footer" or "sidebar", and while it sounds dumb that it ends up being called FooterPage, you could load it in a global before_filter and use it like you're intending to here.

let me know if this doesn't make sense.

[asecondwill]

That makes sense. I might do that next time, I can't decide if what i've done is hacky but:

• I created a "Snippet" model. Name and value properties.
• Added it to Fae admin as per usual
• added the snippets I wanted.
• Removed the delete td in admin index
• passed new_button: false to the index_header
• Fetch @snippets in a before filter

Then in my footer for eg, I do
<%= @snippets.find(5).value.html_safe %>

Which works for me, the client sees an interface that makes sense. Seems ok.

[asecondwill]

An improvement on that would be to show the add button and delete th if superuser or something.

[asecondwill]

No, thats silly. I went with just creating a "Page" called layout, where I can add in whatever snippets i need. Thanks for advice : )