Creating Boring Static Pages
I hope to demonstrate at a very basic level, the concept of controller being used to generate view in Rails. Eventually, I will create a skeleton of a modern web 2.0 landing page.
1. Update Gemfile
source 'http://rubygems.org'
gem 'rails', '3.0.10'
gem 'sqlite3'
end
2. On your console, in the Rails directory
>> Bundle Install
3. Create pages_controller.rb and update
class PagesController < ApplicationController
def home
end
def contact
end
def team
end
end
4. Create the following files in this directory, /app/views/pages/...html.erb
- home.html.erb
- contact.html.erb
- team.html.erb
5. Content for the three html.erb can be anything. It doesn't matter for now.
6. Check http://localhost:3000/pages/home
You will see this routing error.
No route matches "/pages/home"
7. Don't worry. Open /config/routes.rb and update
LandingPage::Application.routes.draw do
get "pages/home"
get "pages/contact"
get "pages/team"
end
The error should be gone if you refresh http://localhost:3000/pages/home
get "pages/home" is equivalent to get "pages/home" => "pages#home"
"controller_name/method" => "the way it looks in browser url. # denotes / in the url."