Rails - Jan 2007 - Page layouts / general site layout with RoR

Hi,

I''m pretty new to the whole RoR thing (coming from a .NET background)
and have gone through some tutorials both in books and online.

In the tutorials the controllers / views make sense. But suppose I have
a layout, images, CSS, etc my designer has given me. The index or home
page has some general info, and might have some dynamic info coming
from the database.

The question I have is - do I create a controller just for this page?
It''s not a page that is simply listing records, or a data entry screen
for a table (as you see in tutorials). It''s a page with dynamic data
coming from possibly multiple pages.

So what''s the recommendation here?

Thanks in advance!
-Keith


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If you do want dynamic data on the page, then yup, you need to create  
a controller.  Many of us create a content_controller.rb for static  
pages.  You can then specify routes that pretty up the URLs to the  
actions for this controller -- e.g., map.connect '''',
:controller =>
''content'', :action => ''index'' would make
the / path load the index
action of the controller (assuming public/index.html has been removed).

If the page is completely static, you can place the content in public/ 
index.html instead.  The downside to this approach is that you have  
to duplicate the application layout in the file itself -- it won''t be  
able to use any layouts in app/views/layouts.

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On Jan 13, 2007, at 3:39 PM, KeithNYC-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I''m pretty new to the whole RoR thing (coming from a .NET
background)
> and have gone through some tutorials both in books and online.
>
> In the tutorials the controllers / views make sense. But suppose I  
> have
> a layout, images, CSS, etc my designer has given me. The index or home
> page has some general info, and might have some dynamic info coming
> from the database.
>
> The question I have is - do I create a controller just for this page?
> It''s not a page that is simply listing records, or a data entry
screen
> for a table (as you see in tutorials). It''s a page with dynamic
data
> coming from possibly multiple pages.
>
> So what''s the recommendation here?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> -Keith
>

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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Benjamin.

For anyone else that might have this newbie question, I googled
''routes'' and happened across this page that explains it a
little
further:

http://www.paulsturgess.co.uk/articles/show/27


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