Question

I am having a hard time understanding routes in rails. I have a folder with a bunch of portfolio pages. Each is in .html.erb format and I have made a get route for each one.

How can I simplify this?

Location: app>views

portfolio/uniquename1.html.erb
portfolio/rexpage.html.erb
portfolio/armstrong.html.erb
portfolio/occupy.html.erb
portfolio/fancythat.html.erb

etc…

Routes look as follows:

NewPortfolio::Application.routes.draw do

get "portfolio/uniquename1"
get "portfolio/rexpage"
get "portfolio/armstrong" 
get "portfolio/occupy" 
get "portfolio/fancythat" 

etc...

Thanks!

Answer 1

resources :portfolio do
  collection do
    get 'occupy'
    get 'armstrong'
    ...
  end
end

Static pages are a little awkward in Rails. You should try to minimize them. Here’s a RailsCast which deals with a few different solutions.