I'm creating a web site for a user, which has a considerable amount of static pages. The user, who has some knowledge in HTML and CSS and can be tought how to use some simple erb-code snippets (for example, to create a <%= link_to "...",root_path %>), should be able to add, change and remove the static pages by himself.
I will describe the approach I came up with, but would be glad to hear better ways how to do it:
My approach would be to use high_voltage (https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage) for dealing with those pages. I would reserve a directory app/views/user_pages for the HTML and erb files, and app/views/images/user for holding the images needed for his pages. The user will be told to upload by FTP only to those two directories (or I will provide a specially tailored upload page for this).
I will also create an admin page, where the user can select, which of those static pages should show up in the main menu, and maybe also some sequence number for each page, so that the user also can control the sequence of the static page links in the main toolbar. This allows the user to first test how the static pages look on the net, before he "commits" them to the general public. This will be important, if he really uses <%...%> tags, because he won't have a Rails environment when creating the pages.
What do you think about this design?
Ronald