Is this the "right way"?

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The site I'm currently designing doesn't have a db back end. So I'm using rails primarily for templating and some scripting.

I approached this by creating a controller called 'main' and various views like "index", "welcome", "about", etc.

But then I'd get URL's like www.mydomain.com/main/welcome when I wanted www.mydomain/welcome.

To fix it, I made some routes in my config/routes.rb that look like:

map.connect "welcome", :controller => "main", :action => "welcome"

This seems to work peachy, but I was wondering...is this the "correct" way to approach this site design with rails?

e.g. a 'main' site controller and address rewrites via routes.rb?

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map.connect '', :controller => "post", :action => 'index'

  map.connect ':id', :controller => 'post', :action=> 'show', :id => /\d+/

  map.connect ':action/:id', :controller => 'post' # Is it that you want?

  # Install the default route as the lowest priority.   map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'

These setting set post controller default that is my forum software default controller.

http://mysite/ http://mysite/action/ http://mysite/action/id/whatever http://mysite/other_controller/action/…

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others may make a more pententrating comment, however, the ROR API is engineered for 2-tuples (x,y) where x desginates a controller and y designates an action on the controller. this is the natural way to approach ROR development.