I''m working on building out a CMS system on rails (which is making it
much
easier and enjoyable!). The CMS has multiple fields per page, and each page
can have completely different fields from one and another. 90% of the pages
will fit within a few different templates/views where the templates/views
have all the HTML and then just insert the page fields in the appropriate
spot (show the title here, image here, text there). The problem is the
remaining 10% of the pages each of which might be it''s own unique
layout
does a separate view have to be made for each of these with the
logic/exceptions put in the controller to show the different views?
In PHP we had a solution that worked well, for this specific issue, in that
the CMS would create a physical page in the website for each page in the
database. That generated page would hold the unique ID# for that page and
include calls to the header/footer and appropriate template include for
that page. This accomplished a couple of things, it gave us static/friendly
urls without having to do all the url rewriting, and more importantly if a
page needed a custom layout it was easy to go in and adjust that one
specific php file/layout for what was needed. This kept us from having to
modify any of the backend code/system when ever a page with a different
layout was created.
Basically, I''m looking for any thoughts/ideas on how to do something
similar in Rails where additional views/layouts can be used without having
to go in and modify the controller?
Thanks,
--James
