From 0b5671ccca4a9f55379c913a211d669e241ad20c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Umar Sheikh <umar.m.sheikh@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:18:49 +0500
Subject: for the root route to work, we need to delete the
 public/index.html.erb file as well

---
 railties/guides/source/routing.textile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'railties/guides/source/routing.textile')

diff --git a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile
index bc38e4a6e5..74dee60c32 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ You can specify what Rails should route +"/"+ to with the +root+ method:
 root :to => 'pages#main'
 </ruby>
 
-You should put the +root+ route at the end of the file.
+You should put the +root+ route at the end of the file. You also need to delete the public/index.html.erb file for the root route to take effect.
 
 h3. Customizing Resourceful Routes
 
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