Rails - Dec 2004 - Creating pages outside of a controller

Hi all,

  I''ve stumbled upon a little problem and would like to know what are 
the best practices out there.

  I''d like to know how do you go about creating a main page, i.e., the 
initial page in which you are not yet on a concrete controller (or, you 
are on the ''default'' one, so to speak) that would sit directly
in the
public folder, but that would be useful for it to be able to interpret 
erb., for example, to embed a login form using the same code as the 
login example in the login generator. I have tried using an .rhtml page, 
but of course, dispatch.cgi isn''t even called to interpret it.

  Will I have to use .htaccess magic to do that, rewriting to a 
main/index.rhtml view, for example? I would like for it to have a pretty 
URL, like http://mydomain/myapp/ , but I''m not sure how to proceed or
if
there''s an easier way.

  I know my question is not properly articulated, please excuse me,
it''s
too early in the morning for me yet :P

Thanks in advance

Victor

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:06:40AM +0100, Victor Jalencas
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  I''ve stumbled upon a little problem and would like to know what
are
> the best practices out there.
> 
>  I''d like to know how do you go about creating a main page, i.e.,
the
> initial page in which you are not yet on a concrete controller (or, you 
> are on the ''default'' one, so to speak) that would sit
directly in the
> public folder, but that would be useful for it to be able to interpret 
> erb., for example, to embed a login form using the same code as the 
> login example in the login generator. I have tried using an .rhtml page, 
> but of course, dispatch.cgi isn''t even called to interpret it.
> 
>  Will I have to use .htaccess magic to do that, rewriting to a 
> main/index.rhtml view, for example? I would like for it to have a pretty 
> URL, like http://mydomain/myapp/ , but I''m not sure how to proceed
or if
> there''s an easier way.
In .htaccess is a line disabled that looks like this:
RewriteRule ^$ /controller/action [R]
Enable it and change it to the controller and action you want.

Hope this helps,

Roeland

Roeland Moors wrote:
> 
> In .htaccess is a line disabled that looks like this:
> RewriteRule ^$ /controller/action [R]
> Enable it and change it to the controller and action you want.
> 
Thanks! That''s exactly what I was looking for.



Victor