At first the problem: After the VegiKochbuch relaunch as Rails project I realized that all old links to recipes are broken and this causes a lot of 404 errors.
The old PHP link structure was: http://vegikochbuch.de/rezepte/rezept175.php
And now in Rails it’s: http://vegikochbuch.de/recipes/175
My solution was adding
match '/rezepte/rezept:id.php' => 'recipes#show'
to routes.rb
It works and is realy simple. I don’t really know if this is the best way, but I like it!
My own first Rails project is online! After weeks of development, reading hundreds of panels, drinking a lot of Mate bottles, today the relaunch happened. Feel free to visit VegiKochbuch and be a part of it!
How to create static pages, for example legal notice, on a Rails project.
./script/rails generate controller Static
The controller code:
class StaticController < ApplicationController
def method_missing(name)
render :template => "static/#{name}"
end
end
In your config/routes.rb add one line for every static page:
match 'legal_notice' => 'static#legal_notice'
Create a new directory app/views/static and add your page legal_notice.html.haml
Now go to http://your-application.com/legal_notice – that’s all.