I've got a site built in RoR. I deliver the pages staticly - upload the public folder contents to my site. The page creation is done by caching and all that works very neatly.
I'd like to streamline the page creation. At the moment, I launch WEBrick, and use my browser to visit new pages, or pages with new content, to create (by caching) the static pages. Which is not neat.
Conceptually, I can see a few ways of going about this: - Scrape the information out of rails using irb, and write something for the browser that visits all the pages. Disadvantage - this is ugly, and not automatable. - The solution I found on the web - use wget. Needs an extra program. Very heavy duty. - The test routines contain methods to simulate web requests ('get'). Now this seems more like it to me, as I could write all sorts of automation, and even a front end round this, but... can the use of 'get' trigger page caching? can 'get' operate outside of the test environment? How? (I'm not good at ruby or rails, example code would help) is 'get' surrounded by any code that's going to, say, refresh my development or production environments (uh oh)? - avoid the above by calling methods directly. This very tidy, but I need a way of coaxing rails, after yielding a page under these special conditions, to throw exection back to my meta static-page generation program (If it's any help, all site pages are generated by just two methods, so writing special code into templates, say, is feasable).
Any progress on the last two, especially, would be welcome.
Robert