Best way to generate static pages

Rails
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hi, guys
I tried using Thoughtbot’s High-Voltage to generate static pages in
my app. For some reason, I can’t seem to make it work cause it keeps
redirecting to one of my search pages. Anyway, I can’t seem to find
more info in the documentation of high-voltage. There was some mention
of “danger” in the docs but that’s about it.

I have googled on how to generate static pages using rails but can’t
find anything useful.

I guess for the moment, i will have to create a controller (named
after the static resource, “about_us”) followed by a corresponding
file in the view.

Anyway, can anyone share a good way of generating static pages?

Thanks!

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ct9a wrote:

hi, guys
I tried using Thoughtbot’s High-Voltage to generate static pages in
my app. For some reason, I can’t seem to make it work cause it keeps
redirecting to one of my search pages. Anyway, I can’t seem to find
more info in the documentation of high-voltage. There was some mention
of “danger” in the docs but that’s about it.

I have googled on how to generate static pages using rails but can’t
find anything useful.

If they’re static, don’t generate them with Rails. Rails is only for
generating dynamic pages.

I guess for the moment, i will have to create a controller (named
after the static resource, “about_us”) followed by a corresponding
file in the view.

No controller needed. Just put the static stuff in the public
directory.

Anyway, can anyone share a good way of generating static pages?

If you really want to generate static pages, try StaticMatic. But I
don’t think that’s what you actually meant.

Thanks!

Best,
–Â
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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Ryan B. (railscasts) also has an episode on the subject:

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On Feb 3, 2:57 am, ct9a [email protected] wrote:

I tried using Thoughtbot’s High-Voltage to generate static pages in
my app. For some reason, I can’t seem to make it work cause it keeps
redirecting to one of my search pages. Anyway, I can’t seem to find
more info in the documentation of high-voltage. There was some mention
of “danger” in the docs but that’s about it.

The “Danger” reference in the docs is a joke, referring to the name of
the engine, which is named after the song “High Voltage” by the
Electric Six:

You do not create a controller (part of the reason for using it).

You should be able to:

link_to “About Us”, page_path(“about_us”)

What is your search page’s route? What is your output when running
“rake routes”?

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What kind of problems are you seeing? Maybe you set it up wrong, have
you seen High Voltage ?
Perhaps paste your routes.rb or rake routes and that could help too.

-Nick

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hi, Marnen :slight_smile:

StaticMatic - sounds interesting. Will google and read.

Cheers :slight_smile:

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hi Dan,
thanks for the explaination. Finally clicked LOL

Alas, i have remove the code that used it but i will go back to git
and see what i can do.
Cheers, Dan!

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hey, Dan,

Any intention to offer high voltage as a gem?

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1)routes.rb

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
map.resources :parts, :has_many => :images
map.resources :parts, :has_many => :fits
map.set_primary_image ‘parts/:part_id/images/:id/
primary’, :controller => ‘images’, :action => ‘set_as_primary’
map.resources :brands
map.resources :makes, :has_many => :vehicles
map.resources :categories, :has_many => :sub_categories
map.resource :account, :controller => “users”, :has_one =>
‘address’
map.resource :user_session
map.search_form ‘/search_form’, :controller => ‘search’, :action =>
‘form’
map.search ‘/search’, :controller => ‘search’, :action =>
‘perform_search’
map.root :controller => “home”
end

2)Extract of “rakes”

<---------- Extract start -------------------->
(in /home/ct9a/projects/myApp)
search_form /
search_form
{:controller=>“search”, :action=>“form”}
search /
search
{:controller=>“search”, :action=>“perform_search”}

root /
{:controller=>“home”, :action=>“index”}

       ...
                  page GET    /

pages/:id(.:format)
{:controller=>“high_voltage/pages”, :action=>“show”}
Showing all Routes

  • /pages/:id(.:format)?
    <---------- Extract end -------------------->
  1. Error message
    ================

Error message on webbrowser as soon as I open up: “http://sample.com/
pages/tester”

<---------- Extract start -------------------->
ActionController::RoutingError in High_voltage/pages#show

Showing app/views/search/_keyword_form.erb where line #1 raised:

No route matches
{:action=>“perform_search”, :controller=>“high_voltage/search”}

Extracted source (around line #1):

1: <% form_for :search, :url => { :action =>
“perform_search”, :controller => “search” }, :html => {:method =>
“get”} do |f| %>
2:


3:
4: <%= f.submit ‘Search’ %>

<---------- Extract end -------------------->

For some weird reason, I do not know why the search controller is
being invoked…