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
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