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authorMichael Koziarski <michael@koziarski.com>2008-01-26 08:41:19 +0000
committerMichael Koziarski <michael@koziarski.com>2008-01-26 08:41:19 +0000
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Make it simpler to make the root route an alias for another route. Closes #10818 [bscofield]
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diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb
index d93dc5205f..70745f9d27 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb
@@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ module ActionController
# root_url # => 'http://www.example.com/'
# root_path # => ''
#
+ # You can also specify an already-defined named route in your map.root call:
+ #
+ # # In routes.rb
+ # map.new_session :controller => 'sessions', :action => 'new'
+ # map.root :new_session
+ #
# Note: when using +with_options+, the route is simply named after the
# method you call on the block parameter rather than map.
#