Serving a static file from a specific URL in rails

Question

Suppose I have a file "example.txt", which lives in my assets/files folder in my Rails app. On production, I can access this file via the url '/assets/example.txt'

How can I set up my routes.rb file so that I can access the contents of example.txt when I simply visit 'example.txt'?

Answer 1

The easiest method is to place the file in your public directory. By default this serves static assets in most cases.