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copied!<p>Take a look at this rails cast - <a href="http://railscasts.com/episodes/117-semi-static-pages" rel="nofollow">http://railscasts.com/episodes/117-semi-static-pages</a></p> <p>I agree that what you are trying to do isn't really 'the rails way', but I use the techniques in the above link whenever I am creating pages such as about us and privacy pages which generally have a block of text and will potentially be updated in the future.</p> <p>In a nutshell what you have to do is create a model called content_page which has a link (string), and content (text) and heading (string). Then you create a controller with just a show action which will look like so -</p> <pre><code> class ContentPagesController < ApplicationController def show @content_page = ContentPage.find_by_permalink(params[:link]) raise ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, "Page not found" if @content_page.nil? end end </code></pre> <p>And in your view for your show action you can say things like -</p> <pre><code> @content_page.content @content_page.heading </code></pre> <p>to get the content and heading for that record (or whatever other attributes you assign to ContentPage).</p> <p>Then in your routes you can have something like this at the bottom of your routes.rb (you put it at the bottom because it is a greedy route) -</p> <pre><code> match ':link' => 'content_pages#show' </code></pre> <p>So now you can say www.mywork.com/nike which will find the content page with nike as the link. I'm being very brief because it is well worth watching that rails cast.</p> <p>Like I said though, the above technique is only good for basic content pages, you should really have a controller for each page, even if it just has an index action :)</p>

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