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Riley Wright
Riley Wright

Reputation: 3

Routing Static Pages in Rails

I am having some difficulty figuring out how to route static pages in rails 4. I have created a controller called PagesController and so I also have a views folder called pages with the oakville.html.erb file in it.

My controller looks like this:

class PagesController < ApplicationController

    def our_mission
    end

end

My routes file looks like this:

get "oakville", :to => "pages#oakville"

I am assuming that I should be able to get to this page by going to localhost:3000/oakville ??

Upvotes: 0

Views: 705

Answers (3)

dave_slash_null
dave_slash_null

Reputation: 1124

The methods in your controller are called actions, and for each static page that you want to be able to navigate to you will need a corresponding controller action. When a person (or link) navigates to yoursite/oakville your routes file needs to know which controller action to perform for the oakville branch of the url.

In the routes that you have shown, get "oakville", :to => "pages#oakville" you are asking the controller to render the oakville action. But there is no oakville action in your controller. Add one and problem solved:

class PagesController < ApplicationController

  def our_mission
  end

  def oakville
  end

end

Upvotes: 0

Abram
Abram

Reputation: 41954

Yes, but you need to add a controller action for oakville

class PagesController < ApplicationController

    def oakville
    end

end

Also, you will need to create oakville.html.erb and put this into your views/pages directory

Upvotes: 1

user229044
user229044

Reputation: 239521

The route you've shown and the action you've shown are completely unrelated.

If you want to route a url like http://www.example.com/oakville to an action called our_mission on the Pages controller, the route looks like this:

get 'oakville' => 'pages#our_mission'

What you've written indicates you expect an action called oakville to exist, and according to the code you've provided, it doesn't.

Upvotes: 0

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