Rails 4 match all routes for one controller

Question

I have a controller with a number of static pages and I would ideally like to route them all with a wildcard.

Is it possible to do something like the following?

get 'static/:action'

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 26 '16 at 22:11

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You probably need something like get 'static/:action', to: 'static#show' and then in your StaticController show action render the correct static page based on the params[:action] parameter.

See http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#defining-defaults for more.

answered Jan 26 '16 at 22:11

eugen

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Doesn't the old technique work anymore, e.g., `:controller/:action` type thing? I haven't tried that for a long time. – Dave Newton Jan 26 '16 at 22:19
Yeah, that's true, I suppose, although in this case it doesn't seem that bad. – Dave Newton Jan 27 '16 at 02:03

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 27 '16 at 00:23

Why don't you just use the show action:

#config/routes.rb
resources :static, param: :page, only: :show #-> url.com/static/:page

#app/controllers/static_controller.rb
class StaticController < ApplicationController
   def show
      render "#{params[:page]}"
   end
end

This way, you can pass the "page" directly through the link and have it all handled by Rails:

 <%= link_to "About", static_path("page") %>

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 26 '16 at 22:32

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You can route something like

get '*path', to: 'static#show'

answered Jan 26 '16 at 22:32

Marat Amerov

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