Ruby on Rails Routing Root route
Example
You can add a home page route to your app with the root method.
# config/routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do
root "application#index"
# equivalent to:
# get "/", "application#index"
end
# app/controllers/application_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
def index
render "homepage"
end
end
And in terminal, rake routes (rails routes in Rails 5) will produce:
root GET / application#index
Because the homepage is usually the most important route, and routes are prioritized in the order they appear, the root route should usually be the first in your routes file.
