Last year, we wrote about static pages for the enterprise.
Since then, we’ve fine-tuned our PagesController into a Rails engine called
High Voltage.
Static pages
Yeah, like “About us”, “Directions”, marketing pages, etc.
Installation
script/plugin install git://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage.git
Usage
Write your static pages and put them in the RAILS_ROOT/app/views/pages
directory.
mkdir app/views/pages
touch app/views/pages/about.html.erb
After putting something interesting there, you can link to it from anywhere in your app with:
link_to "About", page_path("about")
Bam.
Override
Most common reasons to override? Authentication, layouts.
Create a PagesController of your own:
script/generate controller pages
Then modify it to subclass from High Voltage, adding whatever you need:
class PagesController < HighVoltage::PagesController
before_filter :authenticate
layout "danger"
end
Don’t forget to add the new route:
map.resources :pages, controller: 'pages', only: [:show]
Testing
Just a suggestion, but you can test your pages using Shoulda pretty easily:
class PagesControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
tests PagesController
%w(earn_money screencast about contact).each do |page|
context "on GET to /pages/#{page}" do
setup { get :show, :id => page }
should_respond_with :success
should_render_template page
end
end
end
Enjoy!
