Looking forward more documentation (seems you’re already working on this) about how to make this work. There’s a slight mismatch between your github’s readme and the one from rubyforge concerning this project, it’s the part in the controller when you define what possible contexts there are. The one on rubyforge (although outdated by the github one) is much more readable in my opinion.

If I may suggest: I would like something that resembles more the syntax of a before_filter. For instance:
layout :layout_by_context => [ :admin, :application ]
and there would be no private method or proc to define for this to work, it just would take the instructions from a lib or something (sorry I’m not exactly a pro at this)

Eager to see progress on this!

Aside from the situations in which an application has /admin and /application modes, what would be some other examples of where Contextual Development might be useful? I’d like to see more about the approach.

I can’t wait to play with this.

Thanks!