Thanks for that which gives me an idea to create one controller and import each static page content into it somehow. Then I would not have to even worry about updating the menu at all.
On Nov 26, 12:24 pm, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 November 2010 12:04, MDM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have several static files(pages), which are basically copies of my > > website pages source code, with the content changed. > > These files support my website, (keeping the same format) in various > > ways. > > For example the menu part is:- > > > <body> > > > <div id="menu"> > > > <ul class="level1" id="root"> > > etc > > etc. until > > </ul> > > </div> > > > Unfortunately every month or so my menu bar changes and I have to > > update each static file manually. > > As each of my static files have the same menu. > > Is it possible to have one menu file which can be updated and have the > > static files load them automatically. > > I plan to have several more static files. So this would be a great > > help if someone can suggest how to accomplish this. > > I would recommend providing a 'main' controller (or whatever you want > to call it) that just serves up the effectively static pages. > Initially you can just put the html straight into each page.html.erb > and render them specifying no layout. Then you can refactor them and > use the rails capabilities of partials, helpers and so on to put your > re-usable menu into a partial to make life easy. > > Colin -- 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.
