How to serve rhtml files under /public, not /app/views?

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Dear all,

I'm running Instantrails on Windows, and I'm wondering if I can put some ruby code to html files under the /public folder. (rather than those application code under the /app folder)

Do I need to tune something in mongrel so that it can parse those rhtml files with a ruby intepreter?

Thanks, Akira

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Hi,

'coz the /app structure in the rails framework is very application centric, and it could be useful if i can have some (not too much) code in the (r)html files.

for instance, i'm creating a corporate brochure type of website and like 80% of the stuffs're static pages by the designer. i tend to put the designer's work in /public. even then, on those static pages, what if i need something as simple as <%=Time.now.to_s%>.. it would be useful if i can just parse a minimal amount of ruby code there.

Thanks.

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in some cases yes, client side js would suffice.. but my Time.now example might not be a good one.. there're still times when i would rather have server side scripts available on rhtml files.

is there a way? or really every piece of code has to be in /app?

thanks.

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thanks Jean, yes i understand your point and i agree it's better to do it the proper way.

one other reason this question came to my mind is that i think i've seen on some website (though i don't recall the exact site names now) with url's ending with a ".rhtml", and i thought maybe this can be like jsp / asp / php it could be used casually, on a page by page basis as well.

with your solution "render :file => path" the controller is still the central point of the request. i'm thinking, technically, can i have something like http://domain/somefolders/somepage.rhtml ? i mean, not thru the rails routing but rather somefolders/sompage.rhtml are simply within /public. (though not a good practice, but this should be technically feasbile shouldn't it?)

Thanks.

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Hi all, thanks.

i agree with all your comments; and yes i think something like mod_ruby probably answers my original question.

and yes that probably isn't a rails issue to begin with, it's really all about interpreting ruby code by the web server. not that i really need it to work in that way, but i was just so curious to know if it's technically feasible.

Thanks anyway, cheers!