#117 Semi-Static Pages (revised)

Sep 02, 2012 | 8 minutes | Routing

There are many ways to handle static pages in a Rails application. Here I show two approaches including one that uses a RESTful style PagesController to keep the content in the database

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rails g controller info about privacy license
rails g scaffold page name permalink:string:index content:text --skip-stylesheets
rake db:migrate

          pages_controller.rb
        
@page = Page.find_by_permalink!(params[:id])

          routes.rb
        
# get "about", to: 'info#about'
# get "info/privacy"
# get "info/license"

# %w[about privacy license].each do |page|
#   get page, controller: "info", action: page
# end

resources :pages, except: :show
resources :products
root to: 'products#index'
get ':id', to: 'pages#show', as: :page
# if you want the update/destroy actions to work you may want to use a different name for this route.

          models/page.rb
        
validates_uniqueness_of :permalink

def to_param
  permalink
end

          application.html.erb
        
<%= link_to_unless_current "About Us", page_path("about") %>