blue_sparks 0.1.1 → 0.1.2

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  BlueSparks
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  ============
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- Epic static page rendering controller with support for nested pages.
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- Heavily inspired by [thoughtbot's high_voltage](/thoughtbot/high_voltage).
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+ Epic static page rendering controller with support for nested pages, and
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+ routes at the root. Heavily inspired by [thoughtbot's high_voltage](/thoughtbot/high_voltage).
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+ Routes at the root?
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+ -------------------
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+ Yeah, I'm talking about awesome routes like:
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+ /mypage
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+ Instead of:
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+ /pages/mypage
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  Static pages?
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  -------------
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  % mkdir app/views/pages
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  % touch app/views/pages/about.html.erb
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+ Here's the really cool part - _**you can nest pages**_.
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+ % mkdir app/views/pages/somefolder
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+ % touch app/views/pages/somefolder/index.html.erb
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+ % touch app/views/pages/somefolder/other.html.erb
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+ Now you'll be able to go to /somefolder and /somefolder/other. You can
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+ even nest these babies as deep as you like. Have a hundred folder
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+ nesting if you want. AWESOME, RIGHT?!
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  <!--
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  After putting something interesting there, you can link to it from anywhere in your app with:
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  link_to "About", page_path(:id => "about")
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- Bam.
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  Routes
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- By default, the static page routes will be like /pages/:id (where :id is the view filename).
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+ By default, the static page routes will be like /:slug (where :slug is the view filename).
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  If you want to route to a static page in another location (for example, a homepage), do this:
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- match 'pages/home' => 'blue_sparks/pages#show', :id => 'home'
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  In that case, you'd need an app/views/pages/home.html.erb file.
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- Generally speaking, you need to route to the 'show' action with an :id param of the view filename.
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+ Generally speaking, you need to route to the 'show' action with an :slug param of the view filename.
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  You can route the root url to a high voltage page like this:
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  Which will render a homepage from app/views/pages/home.html.erb
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  name: blue_sparks
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  version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
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  prerelease:
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- version: 0.1.1
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+ version: 0.1.2
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  platform: ruby
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  authors:
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  - Cody Krieger
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  rubygems_version: 1.6.2
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  specification_version: 3
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- summary: Epic static page rendering controller with support for nested pages.
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+ summary: Epic static page rendering controller with support for nested pages, and routes at the root.
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  test_files: []
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