From f8461f73c77c186ad0aa735fe9877990bffe1990 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chelsea Macaluso Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 12:32:40 -0500 Subject: Clarified removal of public/index.html file Signed-off-by: Trent Michaels --- guides/source/getting_started.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'guides') diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md index c0cb5b0da9..95490b5e35 100644 --- a/guides/source/getting_started.md +++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md @@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ root to: "welcome#index" The `root to: "welcome#index"` tells Rails to map requests to the root of the application to the welcome controller's index action and `get "welcome/index"` tells Rails to map requests to to the welcome controller's index action. This was created earlier when you ran the controller generator (`rails generate controller welcome index`). +You should also remove the `public/index.html` file because it might otherwise take precedence over the routes defined in `config/routes.rb`. + If you navigate to in your browser, you'll see the `Hello, Rails!` message you put into `app/views/welcome/index.html.erb`, indicating that this new route is indeed going to `WelcomeController`'s `index` action and is rendering the view correctly. TIP: For more information about routing, refer to [Rails Routing from the Outside In](routing.html). -- cgit v1.2.3