rhtml & rails

rubyonrails-talk
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Very nubee If you have a rails app as part of a website that has a good bit of static or close to static HTML. Where is it suggested that the static HTML reside?

Should the HTML reside within the public directory of the application or reside outside the app? It would be nice if it were together because the Rails app and the static html need to have same look and feel and share common elements.

It would be nice if this static HTML could use a template language (PHP or Ruby) to handle simple things like includes of HTML fragments etc. Can rhtml be used and processed like 'erb'? If so, where should it reside and how is it setup?

Thanks

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If it is entirely static then put it in public. If not quite static then have a pages_controller (or whatever you want to call it) and use rails to do the dynamic stuff. A controller does not need an underlying model.

Colin