Rails 3 - Ideal way to set title of pages

Question

Whats the proper way to set the page title in rails 3. Currently I\'m doing the following:

app/views/layouts/application.html:

Answer 1

I found that apeacox's solution didn't work for me (in Rails 3.0.3).

Instead I did...

In application_helper.rb:

def title(page_title, options={})
  content_for(:title, page_title.to_s)
  return content_tag(:h1, page_title, options)
end

In the layout:

In the view:

<% title "Page Title Only" %>

OR:

<%= title "Page Title and Heading Too" %>

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Note, this also allows us to check for the presence of a title and set a default title in cases where the view hasn't specified one.

In the layout we can do something like: