How to do static content in Rails?

Question

Looking at different options:

One is to just put the static pages in the public/ folder, but I do want the header from layout/application to be consistent.

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Answer 1

depends on the url structure, if you want the paths to come off of / (e.g. /about_us), then:

map.connect ':action', :controller => "static"

This should go at the very end of your routes file, Throw your .html.erb files into app/views/static and you are done.

e.g: throwing in about_us.html.erb, will give you a page at /about_us.

The item that you have in your question is great for a catch all route where you can analyze the array given to you at params[:path]. A bit more information on that at http://railscasts.com/episodes/46-catch-all-route