Can I Render A Layout Directly From routes.rb, Without A Controller?

Question

I would like to set up a pair of style guides for the admin and public sections of a website.

Each will need its own layout which will contain a mixture of static ht

Answer 1

I wanted to do something really stupid once, so if you do too, try this working example.

match :movedpage, :to => proc { |env|
    if Rails.env.production?
        @remote_path = 'http://productionhost.com'
    elsif Rails.env.staging?
        @remote_path = 'http://staginghost.com'
    else
        @remote_path = 'http://localhost:3000'
    end
    [
        200,
        {"Content-Type" => "text/html"},
        [File.read("public/moved_page.html").gsub('@remote_path', @remote_path)]
    ]
}, :via => :all

Where moved_page.html was a static page asking people up update their bookmarks and @remote_path just typed in a link like @remote_path. Note that <%= %> won't work because you don't have view helpers in there.

So, theres enough rope to get yourself in trouble ^_^