Question

I have a folder called home that I’m using to organize my top level view files. How do I set the route so that when they appear the url doesn’t contain the /home/ section.

Example: Currently the file about_us displays http://somesite.com/home/about_us where I want it to display http://somesite.com/about_us

Thanks

Answer 1

Rails 2.x way of doing this is

map.connect "/:action", :controller => "home"

this will map somesite.com/somepage to the somepage action on the HomeController

If you want to use a single action for everything, you may go for

map.connect "/:page", :controller => "home", :action => "page"

and then in your HomeController

class HomeController < ActionController::Base
  def page
    render params[:page]
  end
end

and of course, with this setup, you can name your views in app/views/home after the actual page names