Yes, I know the irony of asking for help with a help controller. 
The intent here is to have a place to put common help messages,
nothing complicated at the beginning at least. I created a help
controller, but of course the rspec_scaffold generator called it, and
the path generated, ‘helps’. I tend to think /helps/… is a path
that might indicate we need a better translator, so I added this to my
routes.rb file:
map.resources :help
This seems to have taken care of most of it. Since right now all the
terms come from an internal, non-database-backed array, I have no need
(currently) for the other methods, so I added :only => [:index, :show]
to this. However, I also want an entry page which doesn’t just list
all possible status codes, I added :collection => { :all => :get } as
well.
Now, this works, but it was a lot of manual renaming of files.
The question is, what are others doing for this sort of thing? /helps
just seems so… wrong, but everything behind it would be RESTful.
/help/ won’t map into certain paradigms of automatic resource mapping,
but I like it better for the user to see on the screen.
Thanks,
–Michael