Rails - Mar 2006 - How to bypass routing for a particular request?

I would like to set up some my app. to display a standalone HTML page - 
not rendered through RoR per se.

Something like

render(:inline => some_Javascript_function...

then in the Javascript

some_Javascript_function,

I want to open up a popup with the URL I specify.  However, because it 
is a relative URL, it is going through the RoR routing algorithm.  I 
don''t want that - can I set up a route that basically lets the request 
pass through to the filesystem?

I''m sure there is a way to do this but it''s not obvious.  I
will look
into the url_for() documentation and see if I can find something.

Thanks,
Wes

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if the file that url matches to exist in your filesystem, then it will not
reach routing process

for example if you have file rails_root/public/page.html you can link to it
as http://www.site.com/page.html and it will be accessed directly without
any rails intervention

On 3/22/06, Wes Gamble <weyus@att.net> wrote:
>
> I would like to set up some my app. to display a standalone HTML page -
> not rendered through RoR per se.
>
> Something like
>
> render(:inline => some_Javascript_function...
>
> then in the Javascript
>
> some_Javascript_function,
>
> I want to open up a popup with the URL I specify.  However, because it
> is a relative URL, it is going through the RoR routing algorithm.  I
> don''t want that - can I set up a route that basically lets the
request
> pass through to the filesystem?
>
> I''m sure there is a way to do this but it''s not obvious. 
I will look
> into the url_for() documentation and see if I can find something.
>
> Thanks,
> Wes
>
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Emin,

Thanks, I forgot about the "public" option.

So...is this the only way to bypass routing - to put stuff into the 
"public" directory?

It seems like it might be nice to have a programmatic way to indicate 
that routing is not desired.

Thanks,
Wes


Emin Hasanov wrote:
> if the file that url matches to exist in your filesystem, then it will 
> not
> reach routing process
> 
> for example if you have file rails_root/public/page.html you can link to 
> it
> as http://www.site.com/page.html and it will be accessed directly 
> without
> any rails intervention

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