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

This is my preferred way of doing it:

application_helper.rb

module ApplicationHelper
  def title(*parts)
    content_for(:title) { (parts << t(:site_name)).join(' - ') } unless parts.empty?
  end
end

views/layouts/application.html.erb

config/locales/en.yml

en:
  site_name: "My Website"

This has the nice advantage to always falling back to the site name in your locales, which can be translated on a per-language basis.

Then, on every other page (eg. on the About page) you can simply put:

views/home/about.html.erb

<% title 'About' %>

The resulting title for that page will be:

About - My Website

Simples :)