Staticman

Staticman build static pages, e.g. errors, about, contact, and it's very easy, fast, programable. Rending with proxy inherited rails controller.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'staticman'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install staticman

Create staticman.rb as config in config directory.

$ rails g staticman:config

Next, setting config with staticman.rb.

Staticman.configure do |config|
  config.static_pages = [
    { file: 'statics/about', layout: 'application' },
    { file: 'statics/404', layout: 'application' }
  ]
  # config.static_dir = 'public'
  config.host = 'staticman.github.com'
  # config.controller_context_class = nil
end

The following is config parameters means.

• static_pages - rendering pages, default is [].
• static_dir - output directory for html, default is public.
• host - resolve domain, default is example.com.
• controller_context_class - using controller as proxy, default is ApplicationController.

So easy how to use, you only execute two commands of build and destroy.

First, add static pages in directory specified. you can write static pages the same as other views, include helper_method, *_helper.

$ vim app/view/statics/about.html.erb[haml, etc...]

Create static pages.

$ rake staticman:build

And delete.

$ rake staticman:destroy

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Copyright (c) 2012 terut. See MIT LICENSE for details.