map.connect ‘*path’, :controller => ‘pages’, :action => ’show’

Then add a pages controller:

class PagesController render_path
end
end

Then when you call http://www.yoururl.com/pages/test/one it will render the template app/views/pages/test/one http://www.yoururl.com/pages/about_us would render app/views/pages/about_us

I have done this on hostingrails.com, you put these files in public_html directory, then create a sub-domain like yourapp.yourdomain.com.

My customer updates the static files using front page, the ruby on rails application files sit in their application folder. One drawback is that I had to copy some of the style sheet info and the java script menu, but that wasn’t so bad. On other pages, i put some of the application in an iframe.

In this way, you can even deploy multiple rails applications with one hosting provider account, see more in the link below.

Success !

Ambrosia