Feb 04 2009
Use Rails to Create a Static Site
One of the new things we released last week with dradis v2.0 was a new web site for the project (dradis.sourceforge.net).
The old site consisted of 20 static pages or so, which was nice and easy but a real pain to maintain or restructure. So we thought that letting Rails do the heavy lifting for us would be a good idea, but we did not want to set up a Rail environment in the server…
What we finally did is use Rails as a tool to create a static site that we could .tar.gz and upload to the server. As a starting point we used a post in www.chuckvose.com and this is how we completed it to fit our needs.
Follow up (2009-03-23): do not miss how to integrate your rails-static site with Rake and Subversion in the second article of this series: Use Rails to Create a Static Site: Rake and Subversion.
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