website structure concept

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hey everyone, im working on my very first project using ruby on rails, and I have a question about the controllers im setting up.

the website is pretty simple, there are a few sections, news, shows, bios, photos, links, those types of things.

My question is: how is the best way to structure the controllers, should I have a public controller that handles all of those areas, since most of them are quick view and a detailed view, or should they each be individual controllers (ie: newsController, showsController, etc)??

if the best method is to have it all in one "public" controller, then how is my routes.rb setup to accomodate clean urls, so the "public" part is not displayed, http://urlhere/home, http://urlhere/shows and NOT http://urlhere/public/shows.

keep in mind - public - would be the name of all the publically accessible actions/areas of the website, and is not to be confused with the public directory where the image/styles/javascripts are placed.

Thanks for any advice someone can offer!

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Tim Perrett wrote:

just use a map with options e.g....

  # application routes   map.with_options(:controller => 'application') do |site|     site.site_currency 'system/currency', :action => 'change_currency'     site.site_login 'system/login', :action => 'login'   end

You can see my path is nothing like that controller name...

hope that helps

Tim

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okay thanks for the example, but what would your url look like?

sorry - im still getting through the learning curve hah!