Nice tip - thanks. I notice that Ryan uses this in his routes file: map.with_options :controller => 'info' do |info| info.about 'about', :action => 'about' info.contact 'contact', :action => 'contact' info.privacy 'privacy', :action => 'privacy' end
Is that still valid in a 3.0/3.1 Rails environment? -p On Sep 30, 10:28 am, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 30, 2011, at 1:22 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > I'm just getting started with Rails, and as a simple task I wanted to > > rehost my website from bare html/apache to Rails. > > > What's a typical name for the controller for the main page of the > > website? Rails wants to pluralize it be default... Normally I'd name > > it after > > the table in the database it relates to, but for our web site, with no > > database behind it, that just doesn't seem correct. > > > Thanks, > > Ryan Bates has a Railscast about this, showing you how to go from static file > service to files plus database for these sorts of "static" pages. > > http://railscasts.com/episodes/117-semi-static-pages > > What I have done in the past is to create a PagesController (empty), and then > place my static pages in the views/pages folder. They Just Work™ from there. > If you fiddle the routing, you can remove the /pages/ segment from the URL, > too. > > Walter -- 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.
