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What does yield do in ruby on rails?
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<%= yield %>
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asked Oct 13 '25 01:10
It tells Rails to put your view content to this block (which is called by yield) at that place in the layout file.
Checkout the rails guide to learn more about the ActionView.
https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_view_overview.html
As pointed out by @Aleksei Matiushkin, yield is pure ruby, so you should also learn more about that in your own time.
Here's a (my) visual presentation to explain what happened on that line:
view.html.erb:
<p>Hello there!</p>
<p>I'm a content from view</p>
layout.html.erb:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<%= yield %>
</body>
</html>
Now the results will be like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello there!</p>
<p>I'm a content from view</p>
</body>
</html>
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