Comments on: Rails Tip: Static Pages with No Extra Controller Methods

By: Evgeny

Evgeny — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:54:24 +0000

Actually it is also discussed elsewhere, and actually works ….

Here by Josh:
http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/2008/4/2/simple-pages

And here by Markus:
http://snafu.diarrhea.ch/blog/article/4-serving-static-content-with-rails

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:52:56 +0000

Well, yeah.. There’s the rub…

If you place it within app/views, you’d still need a Foo controller, even if there’s no appropriate method for the page in the controller code.

The main benefit of this is that these pages can inherit layout from the controller and use erb. If you don’t need either of those facilities, putting the file in public/foo makes more sense.

By: Elliotte Rusty Harold

Elliotte Rusty Harold — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:11:51 +0000

On further investigation this works when I put the pages in the public directory. It does not work when I put the static pages in app/views.

By: Elliotte Rusty Harold

Elliotte Rusty Harold — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:58:26 +0000

Are you sure it go0es in app/views? For example, if I want to create a static page at the URL /foo/bar.html then I put bar.html in app/views/foo? I’m trying this andf it does not seem to be working. I just get Routing Error

Recognition failed for “/foo/bar.html”