Hide controller name in URL?

[Pixelateur]

Hi,

In my new Rails project I have a controller "static" that delivers various pages to the viewer. However, the URLs Rails generates are unnecessarily long, e.g. "www.my_project.com/static/welcome" or "www.my_project.com/static/contact".

How can I get Rails to simply hide the controller name, if the controller is "static". If the controller name is NOT "static", it should be displayed as usual.

Can anybody help?

Cheers!

[pjleonhardt]

You can use the routes.rb file to reroute these pages

something like
map.static '/contact', :controller => 'static', :action=> 'contact'
map.static '/welcome', :controller =>'static', :action=>'welcome'

so when someone goes to www.url.com/contact
rails knows which controller to call.
This still allows www.url.com/static/contact to work as well... If you really want that disabled, someone else will have to answer, because I'm not sure on that one.

cheers

[Pixelateur]

Hey thanks!
Not exactly an elegant solution but it should work. I'll try it out right now. Cheers!