On Jan 20, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Dave Aronson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Don Schenck <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is it pretty much a standard, best practice or just a good idea to create a >> controller called "home" and put, say, my web sites home page >> ('index.html.erb') there?? > > Some call it home, some call it welcome, root, etc, whatever. It is > common practice to have SOME kind of controller, just because you need > a controller (unless the page is completely static), to hold common > top-level pages like Home, About, Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, > "Thanks for visiting, come back soon" (i.e., you just logged out), > etc. etc. etc. > > -Dave
Naturally, Ryan Bates has a RailsCast about this: http://railscasts.com/episodes/117-semi-static-pages http://railscasts.com/episodes/117-semi-static-pages-revised (That second one might require a membership to see, not sure, didn't want to log out to find out.) Walter > > -- > Dave Aronson, the T. Rex of Codosaurus LLC, > secret-cleared freelance software developer > taking contracts in or near NoVa or remote. > See information at http://www.Codosaur.us/. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
