How to render normal rhtml page without active record?

[fritz]

hi all, I’m very new to RoR and need some help over here.

from what i learnt from the tutorials, I understand that it’s very
easy to create, update, update, and delete data to and from the DB and
load everything to the ‘view’ rhtml pages. but now i’m confused when i
only want to load a normal home page that will not access any data
from the DB. must I create the active record as well?

any suggestion is appreciated.

[fritz]

fRitZ wrote:

hi all, I’m very new to RoR and need some help over here.

from what i learnt from the tutorials, I understand that it’s very
easy to create, update, update, and delete data to and from the DB and
load everything to the ‘view’ rhtml pages. but now i’m confused when i
only want to load a normal home page that will not access any data
from the DB. must I create the active record as well?

any suggestion is appreciated.

Here is what you can do:

If you are trying to do this for your default home page you must do the
following:
a) delete the index.html page in your public directory, go into your
routes.rb file and set up a route to the page you would like the default
page to be:

Here is what I did:
map.connect ‘’, :controller => “index”, :action=>“index”

What this means is for the default page redirect the request to the
index controller and look for the index method. You will have to set up
a index.rhtml page in the view directory called index.

If you are just trying to do this for any page:
set up a controller (call it whatever you would like). Inside your
controller create a method (call it whatever you would like also). Then
create a page in your view folder that matches the method name in your
controller that you created.

Hope this helps. If not, let me know.
thanks.
Mike

[fritz]

wow, thx for the reply. i guess it gives me some enlightment. yes, i
was referring to some kind of index or home page. i will try it once i
reach home. may need further help later on.

On Jun 15, 11:31 am, Mike R. [email protected]