Public folder in Rails-Api

[Richard McSharry]

Hi,

 

We recently used the Rails-api project and notice that it still generates the Public folder with the following files:

 

404.html

422.html

500.html

favicon.ico

index.html

robots.txt

 

Surely these files are not required for an API only project?

 

Just my 2 cents!

 

Thanks,

Richard

[mic...@epicodus.com]

A lot of people use rails-api for apps that serve up an API, but also a client-side MVC frontend (with Ember/Angular/etc). So it makes to me to have robots.txt and favicon.ico. 

I'm not so sure about 404/422/500.html - I would think you'd want to use a catch-all route for Rails, and then have your client-side app display the appropriate error for page not found/not authorized/server error.

[Richard McSharry]

Thanks Michael, I take your point regarding serving client-side too and hence robots.txt and favicon.ico do make sense. Like you I am still unsure about the usefuleness of the html files. Maybe someone wiser can point out a sensible reason...