I have a rails application I am developing and there''s basically a
minor thing I would like to do that makes my development a little bit
of a pain.
I''m currently doing my local development using ruby''s webrick.
I''m
also relative new to web development, so pardon my ignorance, too.
Basically, my website has a menu system using CSS that is common to
all of its web pages, including the rails web pages. This is to allow
the user to jump from the rails "store" to any other part of the web-
site (home page, etc). Those external web pages are not inside the
rails directory.
Thus, all my pages have the menu embedded in them, like:
<li class="top p1"><a href="index.html"
class="top">Home</a></
li>
In rails, the views/layouts/*.rhtml pages have a similar menu embedded
in them.
What''s bothering me is that within rails those links cannot be
relative as they are in the rest of my website, as any relative path
takes me to localhost:3000/relative_path, instead of the root of my
website. The problem seems to happen both during development and
also deployment.
I was wondering if there was an easy way to keep the paths relative,
but make sure the web server knows they are relative to a certain root
directory and not the rails'' public root directory.
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gga wrote:> I have a rails application I am developing and there''s basically a > minor thing I would like to do that makes my development a little bit > of a pain. > I''m currently doing my local development using ruby''s webrick. I''m > also relative new to web development, so pardon my ignorance, too. > > Basically, my website has a menu system using CSS that is common to > all of its web pages, including the rails web pages. This is to allow > the user to jump from the rails "store" to any other part of the web- > site (home page, etc). Those external web pages are not inside the > rails directory. > > Thus, all my pages have the menu embedded in them, like: > > <li class="top p1"><a href="index.html" class="top">Home</a></ > li> > > In rails, the views/layouts/*.rhtml pages have a similar menu embedded > in them. > > What''s bothering me is that within rails those links cannot be > relative as they are in the rest of my website, as any relative path > takes me to localhost:3000/relative_path, instead of the root of my > website. The problem seems to happen both during development and > also deployment. > > I was wondering if there was an easy way to keep the paths relative, > but make sure the web server knows they are relative to a certain root > directory and not the rails'' public root directory.If you are new to Web server configuration my suggestion is to just make them absolute links. If you really really have to have them be relative links for some reason you can use something like mod_rewrite with Apache to have the Web server point the links to the proper places. -- Michael Wang --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
> > If you are new to Web server configuration my suggestion is to just make > them absolute links. If you really really have to have them be relative > links for some reason you can use something like mod_rewrite with Apache > to have the Web server point the links to the proper places. >Thanks, that''s what I''m doing now but I want to change that, as my links will probably be updated often and I want to have something that is as bullet-proof as possible. mod_rewrite is probably not an option as my site is being hosted and not under my full control. I was wondering if rails'' routes.rb file could also be used for this purpose. Ideally I would like to use a regexp to route any links pointing to some subdirectory (subdomain). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---