Dynamically setting the page title

Don't you hate manually editing the title tags for more than one page in your website? I used to. Ruby on Rails makes changing your page titles a bit easier to manage. In your layout, throw in

<%= @page_title || "your_default_app_title_here" %>

in betwteen your title tags. Now on any .rhtml page in which you don't want "your_default_app_title_here" to be the title, set the @page_title variable.

For example...

<% @page_title = "this page makes me happy with glee" %>

...Heck, say you got an incoming params you want to show up in the title, do so with a little...

<% @page_title = "tagged with #{params[:title]}" %>

...Voila! Magic. (for uber noobs, you gotta use the #{} to use ruby code in a string, if this wasn't in the <% %> tags and just in some text on the page itself, all you would need to do is (for this example) <%= params[:title] %> ...