Export static pages

static.rake

namespace :static do
  desc 'Generate static html files of all views in the pages folder'
  
  #usage: rake static:generate
  task :generate  do  
    # note: add these gems to your gemfile:
    # gem "nokogiri"
    # gem "rest-open-uri","1.0.0" 
        
    puts "generating..."      
    views = Dir.new("#{::Rails.root.to_s}/app/views/pages").entries

    views.each do |view|
       url = view.gsub(".html.erb","")    
       unless (url == "." || url == ".." || url[0,1]=="_") 
         puts url
         File.open("#{::Rails.root.to_s}/public/static_files/#{url}.html", "w") { |f| f.write Nokogiri::HTML(open("http://localhost:3000/#{url}")) } 
       end   
    end  
  end
end             

Basically, I needed a way to generate static HTML files from the pages controller. I couldn't get

`````` ActionDispatch::Integration::Session.new(Rails.application)stuff to work, so I just used nokogiri on my development server. Also, the only route I had was: match ':action' => 'pages#:action.html' ```