I believe you could use rails new feature which is rails metal, it makes rails served the requested content without even touching the routing mechanism. I never use it though, maybe you can find the documentation on the rails site. :)
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2009/6/6 djolley <[email protected]>: > > > >> If you are wanting Rails to stop processing, what should it do? > >> What are you really wanting to achieve? > > > > I just want the URL to be served-up as a static page. > > > >> The normal use case is that static files are not served by Rails but > >> in that circumstance, another server would serve them *before* Rails. > > > > I don't understand that. As configured out-of-the-box Rails serves > > the static page public/index.html as a home page. Although I have > > never done it, I assume that I could simply modify that static page > > and use it as the home page for a site. I just want to accomplish > > essentially the same thing. I want to be able to have a few > > static .html pages in public/static, e.g. public/static/test1.html. > > In the case of this example, I don't want 'static' to map to a > > controller and 'test1' map to an action. It would be my understanding > > that that is what would happen if there were some sort of beginning > > instruction in the routes.rb file to the effect that if a URL begins > > with /static there should be no further processing thus the standard > > mappings to a controller and an action would just not be invoked WRT > > that particular URL. > > I think the point is that requests for the static pages never get as > far as routes.rb. They are handled before the processing gets to this > file so there is nothing that can be done in routes.rb to affect how > they are handled. > > Colin > > > > > Anyway, I didn't mean to get carried away here. I believed that I was > > just missing some minor point and that someone would square me away > > with ease. Apparently the point isn't as trivial as I had thought. > > > > Thanks for the input. > > > > ... doug > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
