Pages

Simple dynamic yet static pages for a Rails app

Installation

In your Gemfile add the following:

gem 'pages'

Then you can either create a app/views/pages directory

mkdir app/views/pages

Or run the generator

rails g pages:setup

Usage

Simply define new pages in your routes

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  # Define a single page
  page :about

  # Define multiple pages
  pages :contact, :team
end

This will expand to:

get '/about' => 'pages#about', :as => :about

Then just create a new view

touch app/views/pages/about.html.erb

And create whatever content you want!

If you'd like to modify the routes that Pages generates, you can alter the page parameter by passing an options hash containing a block. This is particularly useful for creating SEO-friendly routes:

page :press_kit, :transform => lambda { |page| page.dasherize }

would expand to:

get '/press-kit' => 'pages#press_kit', :as => :press_kit

Namespacing

You can easily namespace pages:

namespace :work do
  pages :client_1, :client_2
end

This will create a Work::PagesController dynamically if one does not already exist. If you chose to create your own it should always inherit from ::PagesController. Your views should be put into app/views/work/pages/

Path Helper Overrides

You can optionally override the path helpers by passing a hash to :as

pages '404', '500', as: { '404' => 'not_found', '500', => 'server_error' }

Your views will be app/views/pages/not_found.html and app/views/pages/server_error.html and path helpers will be not_found_path and server_error_path but the urls will be /400 and /500.

Authors

Brian Cardarella

We are very thankful for the many contributors

Versioning

This gem follows Semantic Versioning

Want to help?

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Legal

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Licensed under the MIT license