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

thoughtbot has a plugin called high_voltage for displaying static content: https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage

Answer 2

Lindsaar solution is one of the best I ever seen. He build a caching static pages that expired when git revision changed.

<%= cache "site-page-#{@page_name}-#{App.git_revision}" do %>
  <%= render :partial => @page_name %>
<% end %>