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

Considering if u have 1 Home Controller with couple method like show, aboutus, privacy :

class HomesController < ApplicationController
  def show
  end
  def privacy
  end
  def aboutus
  end
end

And map the show method to your root, and map the other to some named routes like

map.root      :controller => "homes", :action => "show"
map.aboutus "/aboutus", :controller => "homes", :action => "aboutus"
map.privacy "/privacy", :controller => "homes", :action => "privacy"

And with view for each

app/views/homes/aboutus.html.erb --> you get http://localhost:3000/aboutus
app/views/homes/show.html.erb --> you get http://localhost:3000 (root)
app/views/homes/privacy.html.erb --> you get http://localhost:3000/privacy

All using the same layout at app/views/layout/application.html.erb