Add .html extension by default

Rails
1

Hi all,

i would like to add the .html extension by default to all my
resources. What is the best way to do that? The reason for this is
that i need to download the generated sites via wget and i need
the .html extension for the downloaded files. Also it would be nice if
the link_to would automatically generate the links with .html…

Thanks,

Gerold

2

how about a before/after_save callback? i guess that would work.

3

Maybe i was a little too unspecific with my description. Let me try
again:

The website has multiple nested pages and i can address them with
e.g. /pages/first /pages/first/subpage
Now when i want to wget all of the pages the downloaded files are
called first and subpage but
i’d like them to be called first.html and subpage.html so i figured
the easiest way to do that is to just add
.html at the end of all pages by default.

So when i add a resource to routes.rb like

resources :pages

i can call /pages/1 and i get the first page but again if i download
it the file would be called 1 instead of 1.html…
Also if i use link_to or url_for i get the links generated without
the .html at the end…

i tried

resources :pages, :format => :html

but i think the problem here is that html is the default mimetype and
so it’s ignored. One sollution could be to set
another mimetype as default so i would have to add the html format for
every link i generate which would be ok for me…

4

sounds a little bit silly, bit i just tried a route like
map.connect ‘:controller/:action.html’
that is actually working for me
http://localhost:3000/bla/index.html

5

i would like to add the .html extension by default to all my
resources. What is the best way to do that? The reason for this is
that i need to download the generated sites via wget and i need
the .html extension for the downloaded files. Also it would be nice if
the link_to would automatically generate the links with .html…

That’s a very bad idea. The better idea might be to add -E option to
your
wget call (and maybe -k too).

Regards,
Rimantas

http://rimantas.com/

6

i also figured that but i would really like to use resources…

7

why is it a “very bad” idea? i don’t think that would be harmfull in
any way. But if i can’t find an easy way to do it i will have to fix
it with wget…

8

why is it a “very bad” idea? i don’t think that would be harmfull in
any way. But if i can’t find an easy way to do it i will have to fix
it with wget…

Well, sorry, but hacking application to get the result for the
external application (the same result you can get by adding two
characters to the command line)
does not sound like a good idea to me.

There are other reasons why file extensions are bad on the
web in general and in REST case in particular, but I won’t go into
that now.

Regards,
Rimantas

http://rimantas.com/