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-rw-r--r--actionpack/CHANGELOG2
-rw-r--r--actionpack/lib/action_controller/layout.rb4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/actionpack/CHANGELOG b/actionpack/CHANGELOG
index 931b4c4e6d..055da8e7ef 100644
--- a/actionpack/CHANGELOG
+++ b/actionpack/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
*SVN*
+* Correct docs for automatic layout assignment. #2610. [Charles M. Gerungan]
+
* Always create new AR sessions rather than trying too hard to avoid database traffic. #2731 [Jeremy Kemper]
* Update to Prototype 1.4.0_rc4. Closes #2943 (old Array.prototype.reverse behavior can be obtained by passing false as an argument). [Sam Stephenson]
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/layout.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/layout.rb
index caf29ea113..d6a4789bef 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/layout.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/layout.rb
@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
# <tt>app/views/layouts/weblog.rhtml</tt> or <tt>app/views/layouts/weblog.rxml</tt> exists then it will be automatically set as
# the layout for your WeblogController. You can create a layout with the name <tt>application.rhtml</tt> or <tt>application.rxml</tt>
# and this will be set as the default controller if there is no layout with the same name as the current controller and there is
- # no layout explicitly assigned with the +layout+ method. Setting a layout explicitly will always override the automatic behaviour.
+ # no layout explicitly assigned with the +layout+ method. Setting a layout explicitly will always override the automatic behaviour
+ # for the controller where the layout is set. Explicitly setting the layout in a parent class, though, will not override the
+ # child class's layout assignement if the child class has a layout with the same name.
#
# == Inheritance for layouts
#