# thoughtbot/high_voltage

Easily include static pages in your Rails app.

Repository: https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/high_voltage
Homepage: http://thoughtbot.github.io/high_voltage
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-06-22T02:04:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 62/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6343, "days_push": 73, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3237, forks 148 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:50.348545+00:00)

## What it is
High Voltage is a Rails engine that makes it easy to serve static pages like 'About us' or marketing pages from an app/views/pages directory. It provides automatic routing, a page_path helper, and configurable root page handling.

## Use cases
- add static pages like about or contact to a Rails app
- serve marketing pages without creating controllers
- route the homepage to a static page
- generate a sitemap from static page list
- remove /pages prefix from static page URLs

## When to choose
- you have a Rails app and need simple static content pages
- you want convention-based routing for views without controllers
- you need SEO-friendly redirects for static page roots

## When to avoid
- you need a full CMS with editing workflows
- you're not using Ruby on Rails
- you need actively developed new features, since the project is in maintenance mode

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: routing, templating, web-framework
- domain: web-development, backend, cms
- platform: ruby
- tags: rails-engine, static-pages, ruby-on-rails, content-pages, web-server

## Member repositories
- thoughtbot/high_voltage (main) score 62

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.348545+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:24:34.741103+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.348545+00:00, sha 17d4800d57bb)
  - homepage: http://thoughtbot.github.io/high_voltage (fetched 2026-08-29T09:37:21.635947+00:00, sha 545179ec4670)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.