I have an action in UserController that I want to use layout for JournalController.

The issue I'm having is that neither my instance variables (@page_title) nor my flash variables are getting rendered.

## UserController app/controllers/user
  def change_password
    render :layout => 'journals'
    @page_title = "Change Password"
    @user=session[:user]
    if request.post?
      @user.update_attributes(:password=>params[:user][:password], :password_confirmation => params[:user][:password_confirmation])
      if @user.save
        flash[:message]="Password Changed Successfully"
      else
        flash[:error]="There was an error saving your password. Please try again."
      end
    end
  end

## app/view/layouts/journal.rhtml
<title><%= @page_title %></title>
<!-- More Code here -->
    <div class="notice">
      <%= flash[:message] %>
    </div>
    <div class="error">
      <%= flash[:warning] %>
    </div>
    <div class="error">
      <%= flash[:error] %>
    </div>
<!-- More Code here -->
    <div id="content" class="content_outer">
      <div class="content_inner">
        <%= yield  %>
      </div>
    </div>