[Rails] Re: question on layouts

2010-05-24 Thread Joao Silva
I understand the idea of having apache serving static content but
anyways what do you think about this as i am with similar question in
mind.
#controller
class HomeController  ApplicationController

  def index
page = params['page']

if page
  begin
render page_views/ + page
  rescue ActionView::MissingTemplate
render errors/404.html, :status= 404
  end
end

  end

end

#router as the last 2 lines after all options have been excluded

match '/:page' = 'home#index' , :as= :page
root :to = home#index


Would this be good practice?
Might be raw but it does the job for my needs.

What you think folks











On May 23, 7:06 pm, Bill Walton bwalton...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser
 li...@ruby-forum.comwrote:

  John Merlino wrote:
   Hey all,
   Does any have suggestions to whether I should create a controller for
   every web page on my site or just create an action for every web page in
   same controller if those actions will never require database calls?

  Do neither.  Use a single controller action for your static pages, and
  give it the name of the page as a parameter.

 If the OP is, in fact, talking about static pages, you might consider, for
 performance reasons, putting them in a structure under /public and letting
 Apache, et.al. deliver them without the involvement of mongrel / passenger /
 your rails app.

 HTH,
 Bill

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[Rails] Re: question on layouts

2010-05-24 Thread Joao Silva
I understand the idea of having apache serving static content but
anyways what do you think about this as i am with similar question in
mind.


#controller
class HomeController  ApplicationController

  def index
page = params['page']

if page
  begin

# page var is the same as the name of my page.html.erb as in
about.html.erb to process a param with value about etc..
render page_views/ + page

  rescue ActionView::MissingTemplate

render errors/404.html, :status= 404

  end
end

  end

end
#end of class

#router as the last 2 lines after all options have been excluded

match '/:page' = 'home#index' , :as= :page
root :to = home#index

Would this be good practice?
Might be raw but it does the job for my needs.

What you think folks



On May 23, 7:06 pm, Bill Walton bwalton...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser
 li...@ruby-forum.comwrote:

  John Merlino wrote:
   Hey all,
   Does any have suggestions to whether I should create a controller for
   every web page on my site or just create an action for every web page in
   same controller if those actions will never require database calls?

  Do neither.  Use a single controller action for your static pages, and
  give it the name of the page as a parameter.

 If the OP is, in fact, talking about static pages, you might consider, for
 performance reasons, putting them in a structure under /public and letting
 Apache, et.al. deliver them without the involvement of mongrel / passenger /
 your rails app.

 HTH,
 Bill

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[Rails] Re: question on layouts

2010-05-23 Thread John Merlino
nirosh wrote:
 write the function @ application_controller that can be access in any
 controller.
 for more info read abt application controller doc.
 
 nirosh

Hey thanks for the response.
What about the image paths. This is in css and it's not linking to the 
images folder:
background: #b8e5d1 url(/public/images/mastgrad.png) top left no-repeat;

public/images incorrect path? I don't understand because it looks like 
thats the path structure in my app.
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Re: [Rails] Re: question on layouts

2010-05-23 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:07 AM, John Merlino li...@ruby-forum.com wrote:
 nirosh wrote:
 write the function @ application_controller that can be access in any
 controller.
 for more info read abt application controller doc.

Or create a utility controller, call it home or whatever, that handles
all the non-model pages you need. That's pretty typical.

 What about the image paths. This is in css and it's not linking to the
 images folder:
 background: #b8e5d1 url(/public/images/mastgrad.png) top left no-repeat;

 public/images incorrect path? I don't understand because it looks like
 thats the path structure in my app.

public is the root directory of all the static resources -- so you only
want to use `background: #b8e5d1 url( /images/mastgrad.png ) ...`

HTH,
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[Rails] Re: question on layouts

2010-05-23 Thread Marnen Laibow-Koser
John Merlino wrote:
 Hey all,
 Does any have suggestions to whether I should create a controller for
 every web page on my site or just create an action for every web page in
 same controller if those actions will never require database calls?

Do neither.  Use a single controller action for your static pages, and 
give it the name of the page as a parameter.

 It
 doesn't make sense to create a controller/model for a single web page if
 it isn';t going to require sql.

That's poor reasoning.

 However, I do need the url to actual
 show the different page just as in any site. So I'm just curious what
 are best practices to approach this. Thanks for any response.

You can use routing to make the URLs be anything you like.

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Re: [Rails] Re: question on layouts

2010-05-23 Thread Bill Walton
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser
li...@ruby-forum.comwrote:

 John Merlino wrote:
  Hey all,
  Does any have suggestions to whether I should create a controller for
  every web page on my site or just create an action for every web page in
  same controller if those actions will never require database calls?

 Do neither.  Use a single controller action for your static pages, and
 give it the name of the page as a parameter.


If the OP is, in fact, talking about static pages, you might consider, for
performance reasons, putting them in a structure under /public and letting
Apache, et.al. deliver them without the involvement of mongrel / passenger /
your rails app.

HTH,
Bill

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[Rails] Re: question on layouts

2010-05-22 Thread nirosh
write the function @ application_controller that can be access in any
controller.
for more info read abt application controller doc.

nirosh

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