Routing to static html page in /public

Question

How can I route /foo to display /public/foo.html in Rails?

Solution 1

You can do this:

Add this, into your routes.rb file.

match '/foo', :to => redirect('/foo.html')

Update

In Rails 4, it should use "get", not "match":

get '/foo', :to => redirect('/foo.html')

thanks Grant Birchmeier

Solution 2

This can be done without triggering a redirect. Follow the steps further down to be able to route static files in config/routes.rb as shown in this example:

# This route will serve public/index.html at the /login URL 
# path, and have a URL helper named `login_path`:
get "/login", to: static("index.html")

# This route will serve public/register.html at the /register
# URL path, and have URL helper named `new_user_registration_path`:
get "/register", to: static("register.html"), as: :new_user_registration

1. Install the rails-static-router gem: https://github.com/mufid/rails-static-router#installation
2. Restart app (first bin/spring stop to be sure app is completely reloaded).
3. Start using the static(path) method in your config/routes.rb.

Comments

[bendytree]

If you're redirecting to an asset in public, you probably want redirect('/foo.html') (without the /public)

[Grant Birchmeier]

In Rails 4, it should be get '/foo', :to => redirect('/foo.html') ("get" instead of "match").

[Emily]

Is there a way to do this where it sends the content of the file rather than redirecting?

[Arkan]

@Emily I would recommend you to use a controller to send the content of a file.See this link: apidock.com/rails/ActionController/Streaming/send_file . However, something like this should work. match "/foo", :to => proc {|env| [200, {}, [File.open(Rails.root.join('config', 'routes.rb')).read]] }, via: :get

[matanster]

Deploying to Heroku, this yields a redirect loop. Perplexing it's that complex to get a landing page to work in rails....

[Abhinay]

@Arkan +1 for mentioning the name of Grant.

[xaphod]

@Arkan +1 for a method that works well for domain control validation (DCV) on Heroku when applying for new SSL cert

[waza]

Just in case someone trying to use this for Rails 5, the syntax must be changed. Omit the second parameter, so it should be only ActionDispatch::FileHandler.new(Rails.configuration.paths["p‌​ublic"].first)

[guzart]

Link to ActionDispath::FileHandler and link to the Redirect<Endpoint

[Hued Bafuli]

Don't ask me why, but this blew up for me in production unless I have require 'action_dispatch/middleware/static' at the top...