Ruby on Rails

On Jan 20, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Dave Aronson wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Don Schenck <don.schenck@gmail.com> 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

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