It sounds like what you're looking for is layouts.

app/views/layouts/*.rhtml

I'm sure there's plenty of information scattered around the web on
using layouts, but you could also check a rails book, like Agile Web
Development with Rails.

Hope that's helpful.

-Payton

On 10/20/06, justingoodman / gmail.com <justingoodman / gmail.com> wrote:
> So I originally took up a project of making a simple blog for myself
> and some friends to use to communicate with family while at college.
> I've got most of it finished code wise, I am now in the process of
> formatting the pages so it is all identical.
>
> I am wondering, in my views folder, I have several .rhtml template
> files, is there a way I can just define a single template file and a
> load point in the code, and have all my other template files load in
> that defined spot on the template file?
>
> If not, is there another solution, or am I simply going to have to copy
> and paste my code into all of my template files so they all load the
> same page layout?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Justin
>
>
>