Accessing cms content from the app

ComfortableMexicanSofa is a plugin, so it allows you to easily access content it manages. Here's some things you can do.

You can use your existing application layout. When creating CMS layouts there's an option to use an application layout. Suddenly all CMS pages using that layout will be rendered through <%= yield %> of your application layout.

You can use CMS pages as regular views:

def show
  @dinosaur = Dinosaur.find(params[:id])
  # CMS page probably should have either helper or partial tag to display @dinosaur details
  render :cms_page => '/dinosaur
end

Actually, you don't need to explicitly render a CMS page like that. Sofa will try to rescue a TemplateNotFound by providing a matching CMS page.

You can access Page or Field tag content directly from your application (layouts/helpers/partials) via cms_page_content method. This is how you can pull things like meta tags into your application layout.

# if @cms_page is available (meaning Sofa is doing the rendering)
cms_page_content(:page_or_field_label)

# anywhere else
cms_page_content(:page_or_field_label, CmsPage.find_by_slug(...))

Similarly you can access Snippet content:

cms_snippet_content(:snippet_slug)

You can also directly access @cms_site, @cms_layout and @cms_page objects from helpers, partials and application layouts used in rendering of a CMS page.