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First of all we’re going to create a layout for our site. Nothing too fancy. We start with a file called application.html.erb in the app/views/layouts folder. What? It’s not there? Well create it then! While you’re at it, make it look like this:

app/views/layouts/application.html.erb

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 
<html>
 
<head>
 
<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>
 
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "default" %>
 
<title>The Forums</title>
 
</head>
 
<body>
 
<%= yield %>
 
</body>
 
</html>