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dylan kane
2,772 Pointswhere to put html files in a ruby on rails project
so i coded a website in html and that part is finished, did it with bootstrap. now i would like to start incorporating ruby into it with rails, how and where do I put the html files in the project
1 Answer
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsYou mentioned, rails, which has a specific folder structure. Rails does not use a straight html file. Instead, your view files like your HTML template would go into the views folder of your rails app, and the file names would have to have a .erb appended to them, so index.html would become index.html.erb. That will allow you to dynamically bring content into the view.
dylan kane
2,772 Pointsdylan kane
2,772 Pointsso i would put everything in the public folder and then append .erb onto everything and I would be good to go?
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsKevin Korte
28,149 PointsAre you specifically asking about Ruby, or Ruby on Rails? Rails is going to have specific way to do it. Ruby you'd be a bit more free where to put your views, but you also have to hook up the routes. How should I answer this? Rails specific or not?
dylan kane
2,772 Pointsdylan kane
2,772 Pointsrails specific please
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsKevin Korte
28,149 PointsIt's almost easier to show you, and to say I would highly recommend learning about MVC frameworks, and taking some of the rails courses here.
With that, I have a very messy repo you can look at. I'm rebuilding this site in a new repo to eliminate a lot of the "development" clutter know that I know what I want. You can see the entire app, but what you're looking for is in the APP >> VIEWS folder. There are a bunch of folders that contain my
html.erbviews, which are more or less HTML. How the views are structured in the folders relates back to the routes.rb file that can be found CONFIG folder. Those routes pass along to controllers which talk to the models, which get data from the database, and send it all back to the views.Here is the repo: https://github.com/kevinkorte/mcs_rails
Again, its gross and messy, but it does work, and it does serve it's purpose here.