Does anyone know the easiest way to put up a splash page where people can add their email addresses to be notified when the site is ready? I want regular visitors to be directed to this page. How can i have this and still be able to test/develop the site? I know a lot of web apps do this while still developing, so i''m looking for a solution that i''m sure exists, but i cant seem to find it. Thanks in advance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060308/0831094f/attachment.html
On 3/8/06, Manish Shah <mnshah@gmail.com> wrote:> > Does anyone know the easiest way to put up a splash page where people can > add their email addresses to be notified when the site is ready? I want > regular visitors to be directed to this page. >I would create a "signups" model with email_address and maybe a date field, to start. Then a "signup" controller with action "index". You can set your environment to point to this controller & action at the root of the site. How can i have this and still be able to test/develop the site?>I''ve seen two different approaches, usually in some combination: * "Develop locally, publish globally": Publish the basic sign-up page to your server, then stop. Run WebBrick on your development machine. Test/develop locally all you want, just don''t send any more to the server until it''s ready for primetime. * "You have to know what''s there": Put everything on the server, but send mynewsite.com to your signup page. You then surf past the front page, to mynewsite.com/controllername/action or whatever. You may want to use a filter to force login on those, too. - Joshua -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060308/d45e116d/attachment-0001.html
I''ve used Josh''s suggestion, which works great, but am also starting to use a simple Campaign Monitor subscribe list. It''s really easy, and you get all of your people in the system so you can send a blast when you launch. On 3/8/06, Josh on Rails <rails@thewehners.net> wrote:> > On 3/8/06, Manish Shah <mnshah@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Does anyone know the easiest way to put up a splash page where people > > can add their email addresses to be notified when the site is ready? I want > > regular visitors to be directed to this page. > > > > I would create a "signups" model with email_address and maybe a date > field, to start. Then a "signup" controller with action "index". You can set > your environment to point to this controller & action at the root of the > site. > > How can i have this and still be able to test/develop the site? > > > > I''ve seen two different approaches, usually in some combination: > * "Develop locally, publish globally": Publish the basic sign-up page to > your server, then stop. Run WebBrick on your development machine. > Test/develop locally all you want, just don''t send any more to the server > until it''s ready for primetime. > > * "You have to know what''s there": Put everything on the server, but send > mynewsite.com to your signup page. You then surf past the front page, to > mynewsite.com/controllername/action or whatever. You may want to use a > filter to force login on those, too. > > > > > - Joshua > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060308/fb797105/attachment.html
Just in case someone else stumbles across this post like I did, I still didn''t really want to use my own code to do this, so I searched a bit and found launchsplash.com which does exactly this. Free for 2 domains, $5/month for more than that. I''m not affiliated with them. Just hoping to help. -- Posted via ruby-forum.com. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---