if the page is static is has to be in the public folder and rails does not interacts with it , its served by the webserver (webrick ) if its a static page but you are testing how tails work or is dinamic and you put it in a app/views/ folder you could have a controller for it, then rails works like this in your config directory there is a file called routes.rb , in it are the definidtions of how rails reads the url string, there should be two that say
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id' map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format' this means that rails will interpret the url string in that sequence, it will look for a controller after the http:localhost:3000/ with a matching name to the one in that position in the url string then it will look for a template with the name in tha position. so try commenting those 2 lines in the routes.rb file and see if you get the hello.html file On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 8 September 2010 10:01, pauld <paul.denlin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Am working my way thru Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example > > and am on this page: > > > > http://railstutorial.org/chapters/static-pages#top > > > > Am getting problems when I create an HTML page in the public directory > > which is called public/hello.html and should appear as in Figure 3.3. > > > > My problem is that when I try to create the page and make it appear at > > http://localhost:3000/hello.html I don't see the rendered page. > > Instead, I get an error which says "Routing error No route matches "/ > > hello.html" > > > > I have not made any changes to the routing; I thought that Rails was > > supposed to be smart enough to find "hello.html" because it's in the > > same directory as the "public/index.html" page and the name of the > > page is "hello.html"? > > Could you just triple check the file name in public and in the url you > are typing. I believe the webserver looks in public first and only > goes on to look at routing if it cannot find it there. Does it work > if you ask for index.html? Is so I suspect a simple error somewhere. > Perhaps you have a space on the end of the filename for example. You > could try renaming the file to what you think it already is. > > Colin > > -- > 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 rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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 rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
