How to add a new information page to my Ruby on Rails site

Question

I'm very new to Rails so this is probably quite easy for most but I want to add a new page with simply some static information and a link back home. How do I create this and where does the file live?

Any help would be great! Thank you.

Answer 1

Just create a controller with an action for your static page. For example

rails g controller home about

will generate a controller named HomeController with an action about that has a corresponding view in views/home/about.html.erb which you can edit.

Answer 2

In your routes:

get 'my_static_info_page' to: 'application#my_static_info_page'

In your controller:

class ApplicationController < ApplicationController::Base

  def my_static_info_page
  end

end

Then create a view under 'app/views/my_static_info_page.html.erb'

Essentially just create a route as you would for any new action you want to define on a controller. It can be on any controller, all that changes is where you route it to, where you define the controller action and where you put the view.