Where to put basic site pages?

Rails
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I am new to RoR, so forgive me as I know this is fundamental, but what
is the “standard” for creating basic site pages like: home, about,
contact, etc. I definitely understand the MVC approach and therefore
do not want to couple these pages with other components. My guess is
to create a “site” controller to manage these types of pages… Not
sure, so I wanted to get more direction before I make something
harder.

Where do I put basic site pages?
How do I map these in routes.rb so they appear as mysite.com/about,
but do not conflict with other rules?

Thanks,
Jason

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Where do I put basic site pages?
I usually do have a general container controller - I like to call it
‘home’

How do I map these in routes.rb so they appear as mysite.com/about,
but do not conflict with other rules?

You can create them and put them in your public directory - Rails will
look there first.

For example if you have an ‘about’ controller and you create an about
directory and create test.html in there you can then go to /about/
test

Hope that helps.
John

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Thanks for the response. I am looking for something a bit more elegant
as far as the routes. I don’t want to go to home/about or home/
contact. I understand the general container controller and will adopt
that practice. However, I am wondering if I can make a default rule
that would allow me to go to /about, /contact, etc and they map
accoardingly to the :controller => “home” as “home/:action”.

So I guess the question now is, can anyone tell me how to write that
rule?

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Thanks for the reponse. I undertand the controller routing. But this
is not the functionality I am after.

I want a route, that defaults to a “home” controller, but doesn’t
interfer with other routes. In addition, it would allow me to use URLs
like /about /contact, not /home/about, /home/contact.

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in the cong directory you have a routes.rb archive there yo can arrange
your
routes, the default are for each controler a route is created containing
the
destroy, create, new , update .
For example if you have a home controller this will be created:
map.resources :home , this will let you access from your browser to
/home/new home/edit/id home/ (the index), each of this will have a view
related.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jason [email protected] wrote:

–
Felipe V. Contesse
Ingeniería Civil Industrial UC

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You’ll need to add this route to your routes.rb file:

map.home “home”, :controller => “MyMiscController”, :action =>
“mi_home_action”
map.about “about”, :controller => “MyMiscController”, :action =>
“mi_about_action”

You will have now:

home_path (/home)
about_path (/about)

helper methods so you can link them from your view files.

I can’t think of other way.

Regards,
Jorge Corona.

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On Sep 3, 12:14 am, Pozole [email protected] wrote:

You’ll need to add this route to your routes.rb file:

map.home “home”, :controller => “MyMiscController”, :action =>
“mi_home_action”
map.about “about”, :controller => “MyMiscController”, :action =>
“mi_about_action”

You could even glob the view directory for your general controller for
view files and create the routes dynamically. E.g. put this in your
routes.rb:

ActionController::Base.view_paths.each do |path|
Dir.glob(“#{path}/pages/*”).each do |view_file|
view_name = File.basename(view_file, ‘.html.erb’)
map.send view_name.to_sym, view_name, :controller =>
‘page’, :action => view_name
end
end

(assuming your general controller is called “pages”)

Cheers,
Christian

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This is a great reply, Pazole. I think it’s exactly what was needed
and also helps to serve as a good example for reference. Thanks!

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Thanks to everyone for the replies. Extra thanks to Christian and
Jorge, these are exactly what I was after. Also a good screencast from
jjburka.

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I usually use the method shown in

with the route being
map.static ‘:permalink’, :controller => ‘pages’, :action => ‘show’

placed right above the default routes