Generate static pages with ease.
Snow makes it easy to use a layout in app/views/layouts/ for pages like public/404.html and public/500.html. Think of it like HighVoltage, but for static files that live in public.
Snow is currently in alpha. Effectively, there’s just a README right now, as we still need to extract some code from a project.
To install:
gem install snow --pre
Or in your Gemfile:
gem "snow", "~> 0.1.0.alpha.1" # or newer version as appropriate
Snow adds the following rake tasks by default:
rake statics # Render all statics to files rake statics:404 # Render static 404 page with layout rake statics:422 # Render static 422 page with layout rake statics:500 # Render static 500 page with layout
Snow uses actions in a controller named StaticsController. Essentially, rake statics does this:
app/views/statics/not_found.html.erb => public/404.html app/views/statics/unprocessable.html.erb => public/422.html app/views/statics/server_error.html.erb => public/500.html
This is a one time rendering so that you don’t have to resort to any strange ApplicationController/Rails changes just to easily have a layout for your statics.
Did your layout change? Just run rake statics and all the statics will be refreshed.