Say I want to launch part of a site that only has a couple parts of the site active (so, a couple controllers would be active and the rest would not be). What would be the best way of doing that? Creating a branch in subversion for the partial launch? And then as I do updates, merge the changes back and forth between the trunk and the branch?
A branch is not a bad idea.
Alternatively, you could just customize your routes to only route requests to the controllers you want visible... and get rid of the generic routes like:
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
Tom
Branching is the best idea, though if you want something quick and dirty you could simply make all your controller methods protected.
