Should be, I just did something following that recipe for my wife's site. It's a combo static/dynamic Rails 3.0.10 site.
Walter On Sep 30, 2011, at 1:51 PM, [email protected] wrote: > 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. > -- 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.

