content_for in controller as described in http://blog.yakitara.com/2011/05/rails-31-http-streaming-and-contentfor.html

gistfile1.rb

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  ...
  # FORCE to implement content_for in controller
  def view_context
    super.tap do |view|
      (@_content_for || {}).each do |name,content|
        view.content_for name, content
      end
    end
  end
  def content_for(name, content) # no blocks allowed yet
    @_content_for ||= {}
    if @_content_for[name].respond_to?(:<<)
      @_content_for[name] << content
    else
      @_content_for[name] = content
    end
  end
  def content_for?(name)
    @_content_for[name].present?
  end
end

gistfile2.rb

class PostsController < ApplicationController
  def index
    content_for :title, "List of posts"
    ...
  end
end

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you! Working for me in Rails 3.0.9.

My only suggestion would be to move it to a module ContentForInController so you don't clutter up your ApplicationController (I put mine in lib/content_for_in_controller.rb) and release it as a gem for easy reusability.

TylerRick, thanks for your comment. I have thought that if someone is interested in it, it can be worth releasing as a gem. It seems to be the time :)

Awesome work hiroshi. Kudos! I suggest you release it as a gem! it's the best time to do it!

For now, I'v not used rails for my projects. @kuroir, It's OK to release as a gem by you, if you wish. I'll appreciate to have my name or url for this gist on README :-)

I made a over basic gem to embed your code with style :)

I would love any feedback on how to inject the module a bit cleaner than calling send :include on ActionController::Base...

Thanks !

@clmntlxndr
Thanks. I just glad to see that my idea is usable for someone other than me :-)
As for the way to inject the module, I don't have any idea of better way for now.

Awesome gist!

Is there a way to prevent HTML to be escaped when appending the content? I am trying to do something like

  content_for(:head, render_to_string(:partial => "layouts/my_partial" ))

Sorry, just remembered about .html_safe...

I ended up changing the gist a bit to call html_safe before adding it to the content

Wouldn't that be html_safe ? ## Mario Ricalde Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig)

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On Saturday 7 de July de 2012 at 02:48 p.m., Felipe Sabino wrote: Awesome gist! Is there a way to prevent HTML to be escaped when appending the content? I am trying to do something like content_for(:head, render_to_string(:partial => "layouts/my_partial" )) --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/985457

Thank you so much for posting this! I was able to use this solution to override my page titles. Cheers.

Simple hack to make it work with a block - just do @_content_for||=yield

I cut-pasted this to make provide for controllers - https://gist.github.com/hiroshi/985457

While this gist comes handy, it's too much just to use it to change the page titles. If someone wants to use this gist just to change the title of the pages dynamically it would be better just to put the following in the layout:

<title><%= @title || "default title" %></title>

With that approach one will just have to set the @title instance variable in the controller, like this:

@title = 'My title'

Sorry to stir up an old topic, but what about memoizing the view_context? Will that cause other issues? Seems to work for me in rails 4.

  def view_context
    @view_context ||= super
  end
  delegate :content_for, to: :view_context

EDIT
Found out real quick: Don't do this, it breaks instance variable assignment...

seems broken on rails 4