Rails - Aug 2012 - How to create subpages.

What I am trying to do is create subpages within the main page. 

So if the top navigation is
 
- Home
www.example.com/

- About
www.example.com/about

- Contact
www.example.com/contact

- Support
www.example.com/support

I would want a sub navigation under the pages like so;

- Home
www.example.com/

- About
www.example.com/about

----- History
www.example.com/about/history

----- Locations
www.example.com/about/locations

----- Careers
www.example.com/about/careers

- Contact
www.example.com/contact

- Support
www.example.com/support

----- Products
www.example.com/support/products

----- Forum
www.example.com/support/forum 

Would I need to create a new controller for each page category? (i.e. home, 
about, contact, support). And then add the pages within each respective 
category. 

The big problem I am having currently is routing the pages. 

So I currently have the top level navigation all done under 1 controller 
(static_pages_controller.rb) & the routes.rb (match
''/about'', to:
''static_pages#about''). 

So I am trying to figure out how I would add the subpages for about 
(history, location, careers) so they the url www.example.com/about/history 
etc. 

I''m sure there is an easy way to do this, but I can''t seem to
figure it
out! Any help would be much appreciated!!

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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:27 PM, mack3000
<mackenzie.child-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> So if the top navigation is
>
> - Home
> www.example.com/
>
> - About
> www.example.com/about
...
> www.example.com/about/history
...
> Would I need to create a new controller for each page category?
The immediately obvious ways that leap to my mind are either that, or
manual routing to different controllers.  They should all be pretty
trivial boilerplate, though, so it shouldn''t be too hard.  I
wouldn''t
be surprised if there is (or someone could whip up) a gem to make this
even easier....
> I currently have the top level navigation all done under 1 controller
> (static_pages_controller.rb) & the routes.rb (match
''/about'', to:
> ''static_pages#about'').
>
> So I am trying to figure out how I would add the subpages for about
> (history, location, careers) so they the url www.example.com/about/history
> etc.
Without  a lot of manual routing, off the top of my head, I''d say:

- Make each top-level page its own controller, including an index action
- Make each sub-page a new action within that controller

So for instance you''d have an "about" controller, with
actions
including index (for /about), history (for /about/history), etc., and
a "support" controller, with actions including index (for /support),
products (for /support/products), and so on.

Or you could put them all in one controller, with more explicit manual
routing in routes.rb for the index actions.

-Dave

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