Codelation Pages

A extension of Rails routes mapper for automatically registering static pages.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "codelation_pages"

Install the Codelation Pages gem with Bundler:

bundle install

Example: Creating an "About Us" page.

All static pages are served by the PagesController, so the HTML/ERB files live in app/views/pages. The PagesController is a generated controller, so you won't find it as a file in the code. If you define the controller, it will be used instead of the generated controller.

If I want my about page to live at http://example.com/about-us, I would create the view file: app/views/pages/about_us.html.erb. The link helper will be available as about_us_path.

You can also create pages within subfolders, so if wanted to create a "Features > Overview" page that lives at http://example.com/features/overview, I would create the view file: app/views/pages/features/overview.html.erb. The link helper will be available as features_overview_path.

Files with the name index.html.erb will be served at the root path for that directory. Example: app/views/features/index.html.erb will live at http://example.com/features. The link helper will be available as features_path.

Files within subfolders will not be served by the PagesController. They will be served by a generated controller matching the name of the folder. In the case of our "Features > Overview" page, the controller would be the Pages::FeaturesController.

Add draw_static_pages to config/routes.rb:

RailsProject::Application.routes.draw do
  draw_static_pages
end

You will need to restart your Rails server after adding new page files.

I recommend using the Title gem for storing page titles. Using codelation_pages, your en.yml file will look something like this:

en:
  titles:
    application: This is the default title
    pages:
      about_us: About Us
      features:
        index: Features
        overview: Features > Overview
      index: Home Page
    posts:
      index: Codelation Blog

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request