Convert dynamic rails app to static html

Rails
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Can I convert a dynamic rails app to static html pages?

I’d like to build some small (portfolio) sites;

it would be nice if I could create them in Rails:
create a basic scaffold to add about 20 projects…

Afterwards, the site wouln’t d be updated anymore, so it doesn’t have to
be dynamic once it’s finished…

Can I generate static html files for every one of my 20 project-pages?

I guess this shouldn’t be that hard, since caching sort of uses the same
technique…

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Johan Van mol wrote:

Can I generate static html files for every one of my 20 project-pages?

I guess this shouldn’t be that hard, since caching sort of uses the same
technique…

You can just display source (ctl-u) for each page and save them to
files. They will be a static copy of what the system generated.

Norm

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Norm wrote:

You can just display source (ctl-u) for each page and save them to
files. They will be a static copy of what the system generated.

Hi, I know I can do it that way, but that isn’t very DRY,
since I would have to perform the same action over and over again for
each page…

Is Rails able to automate this?
That would be great…

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On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Johan Van mol
[email protected] wrote:

You can just display source (ctl-u) for each page and save them to
files. They will be a static copy of what the system generated.

Hi, I know I can do it that way, but that isn’t very DRY,
since I would have to perform the same action over and over again for
each page…

Is Rails able to automate this?

I can’t imagine much of a use case for Rails doing this, but why not
just use wget to grab a complete site image?

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Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]

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Yes, wget would be a good option.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Hassan S.
<[email protected]

wrote:

Is Rails able to automate this?

I can’t imagine much of a use case for Rails doing this, but why not
just use wget to grab a complete site image?

–
Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]

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Just use something like HTTrack which will download the whole site
(follow all the links, get the images, css, js, etc) and convert all
the links for you.