Question

I have an html homepage that I created along with some CSS and JS code. I want to include this to my ruby application as a homepage. In my config/routes.rb I have this:

  # You can have the root of your site routed with "root"
  # just remember to delete public/index.html.
  # root :to => 'welcome#index'
  root :to => 'first_controller#index', :as => 'first_controller'

and in my first_controller I have this:

class FirstControllerController < ApplicationController

  def index
        @users = User.all
  end

end

Can I create a def home method that redirects to my html file?

The @users = User.all is code from a book im reading, that teaches you how to build a ruby app, that I modify along hte way to my needs.
thx

Answer 1

You could do

class FirstControllerController < ApplicationController

  def index
    @users = User.all
  end

  def home
    render :template => "relative/path/from/views", :layout => false
  end

end

Also, since it is plain html, you could make rails cache it. Add caches_page :home in your controller

Edit: formatting