From 6e165b894051a23c2818cb8d21dd74de8d41c622 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Koziarski <michael@koziarski.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:41:19 +0000
Subject:  Make it simpler to make the root route an alias for another route. 
 Closes #10818 [bscofield]

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@8738 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
---
 actionpack/CHANGELOG                               |  5 +++++
 actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb        |  6 ++++++
 .../lib/action_controller/routing/route_set.rb     |  5 +++++
 actionpack/test/controller/routing_test.rb         | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 40 insertions(+)

diff --git a/actionpack/CHANGELOG b/actionpack/CHANGELOG
index 40cba442d4..cd4ffe06ca 100644
--- a/actionpack/CHANGELOG
+++ b/actionpack/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Make map.root accept a single symbol as an argument to declare an alias.  #10818 [bscofield] 
+
+  e.g.  map.dashboard '/dashboard', :controller=>'dashboard'
+        map.root      :dashboard
+
 * Handle corner case with image_tag when passed 'messed up' image names. #9018 [duncanbeevers, mpalmer]
 
 * Add label_tag helper for generating elements. #10802 [DefV]
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.
   #
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing/route_set.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing/route_set.rb
index 30995297f3..6ba1a5c3ea 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing/route_set.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing/route_set.rb
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ module ActionController
 
         # Creates a named route called "root" for matching the root level request.
         def root(options = {})
+          if options.is_a?(Symbol)
+            if source_route = @set.named_routes.routes[options]
+              options = source_route.defaults.merge({ :conditions => source_route.conditions })
+            end
+          end
           named_route("root", '', options)
         end
 
diff --git a/actionpack/test/controller/routing_test.rb b/actionpack/test/controller/routing_test.rb
index 73b1fa55e8..38a0aa7bdc 100644
--- a/actionpack/test/controller/routing_test.rb
+++ b/actionpack/test/controller/routing_test.rb
@@ -1808,6 +1808,30 @@ class RouteSetTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     Object.send(:remove_const, :PeopleController)
   end
   
+  def test_recognize_with_alias_in_conditions
+    Object.const_set(:PeopleController, Class.new)
+
+    set.draw do |map|
+      map.people "/people", :controller => 'people', :action => "index",
+        :conditions => { :method => :get }
+      map.root   :people
+    end
+
+    request.path = "/people"
+    request.method = :get
+    assert_nothing_raised { set.recognize(request) }
+    assert_equal("people", request.path_parameters[:controller])
+    assert_equal("index", request.path_parameters[:action])
+
+    request.path = "/"
+    request.method = :get
+    assert_nothing_raised { set.recognize(request) }
+    assert_equal("people", request.path_parameters[:controller])
+    assert_equal("index", request.path_parameters[:action])
+  ensure
+    Object.send(:remove_const, :PeopleController)
+  end
+
   def test_typo_recognition
     Object.const_set(:ArticlesController, Class.new)
 
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