Can I Render A Layout Directly From routes.rb, Without A Controller?

Question

I would like to set up a pair of style guides for the admin and public sections of a website.

Each will need its own layout which will contain a mixture of static ht

Answer 1

Actualy the answer is NO, you can't do it without a controller. But see some trivial workaround...

It's not very fair but should work:

Assuming you have FooController with any logic you already have implemented. Now you want to render anypage.html.erb without creating any special controller. Here is how:

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1. Configure a route to your static page:

   get '/your/static/page', to: 'foo#anypage'

2. Implement the view app/views/foo/anypage.html.erb.

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The problem is that it is impossible to change a path to your view. The path depends on the controller that you specify in a route (foo in the example). Also note that it will be rendered with a specified for FooController layout.

It should work by convention and you can read about it here.

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UPDATE

Also I found very simmilar solution here. Using ApplicationController seems more reasonable for such pages. (Note that you needn't to create an action for it)