You don't need to change anything in your routes file for that to work. Any static files that exist in the public folder (eg all your images/ js/css or public/static/test1.html) will be served as static files. Don't forget that the url to browse to these files is /static/ test1.html and not /public/static/test1.html since it is the public folder and not the rails root that is the webserver root directory.
Cheers, Jeremy On Jun 6, 6:02 pm, djolley <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you are wanting Rails to stop processing, what should it do? > > What are you really wanting to achieve? > > I just want the URL to be served-up as a static page. > > > The normal use case is that static files are not served by Rails but > > in that circumstance, another server would serve them *before* Rails. > > I don't understand that. As configured out-of-the-box Rails serves > the static page public/index.html as a home page. Although I have > never done it, I assume that I could simply modify that static page > and use it as the home page for a site. I just want to accomplish > essentially the same thing. I want to be able to have a few > static .html pages in public/static, e.g. public/static/test1.html. > In the case of this example, I don't want 'static' to map to a > controller and 'test1' map to an action. It would be my understanding > that that is what would happen if there were some sort of beginning > instruction in the routes.rb file to the effect that if a URL begins > with /static there should be no further processing thus the standard > mappings to a controller and an action would just not be invoked WRT > that particular URL. > > Anyway, I didn't mean to get carried away here. I believed that I was > just missing some minor point and that someone would square me away > with ease. Apparently the point isn't as trivial as I had thought. > > Thanks for the input. > > ... doug --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

