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Really nice design. Not that it matters but your index is an imdex.html :)

by joakin 15y ago

marcamillion 15y ago
joakin....ahh you noticed :) That was by design. A little hack to get the behavior I wanted out of Rails. Rather than doing something else like 'marketing.html' or whatever, I tried to stay as close to the default as possible :)
- uxp 15y ago
  I'll bite with a few guesses. What are you getting around with this routing hack? Assuming you are using Devise with the conventional HomeController, and 'root :to => "home#index"' you shouldn't have to bother with faking a resource in the url. From your /login page, your logo links to /home/index anyways. All the hashtags/anchor tags should work. I've not had a problem with it myself. The headers for /index.html return the same 404 resource as /adjhasdkj123123, so I'm rather curious. Teach me something. :)
  - marcamillion 15y ago
    The main issue was that I didn't want the user to just see compversions.com/home/index when they are logged in. I wanted them to see compversions.com. If I have index.html - as far as I found anyway - in my public directory, all requests to compversions.com (logged in or not) will either redirect to compversions/home/index or compversions.com/index.html. So, as far as my research told me at the time (remember I am just learning Rails still, so I could be wrong anyway) was that if I wanted logged in users to see compversions.com when they are logged in and on the root_path, there couldn't be a index.html, otherwise Rails routing would default to index.html.
    - seats 15y ago
      Take a look at high voltage - https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage
      - marcamillion 15y ago
        This looks interesting, but not sure it will do what I need - which is having Rails re-route requests to index.html or root_path based on if they are logged in or not...or am I missing something ?
        seats 15y ago
        Doesn't solve your problem directly, but it's a nice way to have static pages in your app in a manageable way. You'd want to do something along the lines of what they show in the override section and test for your authenticated session within the controller, branching appropriately.
- joakin 15y ago
  I forgot to ask, did you design it? if not, what method did you use to get that good result?
  - marcamillion 15y ago
    I didn't design it - from a graphics perspective. I worked with two awesome designers who worked with me to craft it....i.e. they put up with my overbearing demands :) The design of the marketing site. Was done by: http://fairheadcreative.com/ http://fairheadcreative.com/ and the UI design was done by: http://www.andreeblixt.com/ http://www.andreeblixt.com/ Both awesome designers. The Chameleon, both the graphic and the CSS was done by Adam @ Fairhead Creative. Blixt is insane with the UI stuff.

Really nice design. Not that it matters but your index is an imdex.html :)

by joakin 15y ago

Really nice design. Not that it matters but your index is an imdex.html :)

joakin....ahh you noticed :) That was by design. A little hack to get the behavior I wanted out of Rails. Rather than doing something else like 'marketing.html' or whatever, I tried to stay as close to the default as possible :)

uxp 15y ago
I'll bite with a few guesses. What are you getting around with this routing hack? Assuming you are using Devise with the conventional HomeController, and 'root :to => "home#index"' you shouldn't have to bother with faking a resource in the url. From your /login page, your logo links to /home/index anyways. All the hashtags/anchor tags should work. I've not had a problem with it myself. The headers for /index.html return the same 404 resource as /adjhasdkj123123, so I'm rather curious. Teach me something. :)
- marcamillion 15y ago
  The main issue was that I didn't want the user to just see compversions.com/home/index when they are logged in. I wanted them to see compversions.com. If I have index.html - as far as I found anyway - in my public directory, all requests to compversions.com (logged in or not) will either redirect to compversions/home/index or compversions.com/index.html. So, as far as my research told me at the time (remember I am just learning Rails still, so I could be wrong anyway) was that if I wanted logged in users to see compversions.com when they are logged in and on the root_path, there couldn't be a index.html, otherwise Rails routing would default to index.html.
  - seats 15y ago
    Take a look at high voltage - https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage
    - marcamillion 15y ago
      This looks interesting, but not sure it will do what I need - which is having Rails re-route requests to index.html or root_path based on if they are logged in or not...or am I missing something ?
      - seats 15y ago
        Doesn't solve your problem directly, but it's a nice way to have static pages in your app in a manageable way. You'd want to do something along the lines of what they show in the override section and test for your authenticated session within the controller, branching appropriately.
joakin 15y ago
I forgot to ask, did you design it? if not, what method did you use to get that good result?
- marcamillion 15y ago
  I didn't design it - from a graphics perspective. I worked with two awesome designers who worked with me to craft it....i.e. they put up with my overbearing demands :) The design of the marketing site. Was done by: http://fairheadcreative.com/ http://fairheadcreative.com/ and the UI design was done by: http://www.andreeblixt.com/ http://www.andreeblixt.com/ Both awesome designers. The Chameleon, both the graphic and the CSS was done by Adam @ Fairhead Creative. Blixt is insane with the UI stuff.