Hi Everyone,
A newbie question, I have my subdomain pointing to th respective app/views folder however the browser does not default to the index.html.erb , so instead I just have file listing. When I click on the index.html.erb it does work fine. What do I need to do to get it to work so it automatically load when a user goes to that view folder.
Thanks in advance
Using ROR 2.2
You should not be directly accessing your views from the browser. Instead, your subdomain should go to the public folder (instead of app/ views). Here's the basic flow for a Rails app:
The browser goes to the public folder. The dispatcher in that folder (automatically generated with the rest of the Rails app) will be called and given the URL of the browser's request. Assuming the URL isn't for some static file within the public folder (e.g. an image or CSS file), the dispatcher will route the request to an action within a controller. It decides which controller and action to go to based on the URL. Be default, "subdomain.yoursite.com/apple/orange" will call the apple controller and the orange action.
Inside the controller file, a method with the same name as the specified action will be run. So in the previous example, the orange method will be called in the app/controller/apple_controller.rb file. Once the orange method has finished executing, Rails will then render app/views/apple/orange.html.erb.
If that isn't working, you probably have to either set up FastCGI or start up a WEBrick or Mongrel server. Let us know what your setup is and we can probably help you out there.
-- Andrew