simple-layout

In your Gemfile:

roup :development do
gem "simple-layout"  # Last officially released gem
nd

From console:

$rails g layout simple         # To generate simple layout
$rails destroy layout simple   # To remove files related to simple layout

In your controller:

class  PostsContorller < ApplicationController
  layout 'simple'
  ...
end

To detailize your layout, modifiy app/views/layout/simple.html.erb

That's it. Hope it's simple!!

Contributing to simple-layout

For those who wants to create your layout and share with others, please make your .css to match to the layout below:

You need to make the following files and directories

  1. styles.css
  2. /images directory with files used by styles.css
  3. index.html to show an example
  4. .html.erb, which will be copied to app/views/layouts

If you can, send me a pull request. You can also send it to me, so that your layout can be shared.

+-- #header -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  +-- #logo --+                                                                               |
|  |           |                                                                               |
|  +-----------+                                                                               |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-- #navigatgion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                                              |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+- #sidebar -+ +--- #contents -----------------------------------------------------------------+
|            | | +-- #notice ----------------------------------------------------------------+ | 
|            | | |                                                                           | |
|            | | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |
|            | |                                                                               |            
|            | |                                                                               |
|            | |                                                                               |
|            | |                                                                               |
|            | |                                                                               |            
|            | |                                                                               |
|            | |                                                                               |
|            | |                                                                               |
|            | |                                                                               |
|            | |                                                                               |
|            | |                                                                               |
+------------+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-- #footer -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                                              |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Example
#header img { border: 1px sold black }

Copyright (c) 2012 Allen Kim. See LICENSE.txt for further details.