Just getting started. Don't understand a thing.

[Baruch Atta]

Reading the fine manual, I am doing the tasks in order:  I got to 4.3 and hit a wall.

"The root :to => "home#index" tells Rails to map the root..."

In any operating system that I have used, home#index is not a path.  I want to route to the path C:\Documents and Settings\Baruch\blog>  where i created my "blog" first application as listed in the fine manual. This step 4.3 (I would think) is telling me that I can list my blog folder as the root of my application and it will be used as the index.htm root folder. 

My question is How do I actually "root" to my "blog" folder?

My observation is Why doesn't the fine manual actually tell me this, at this point?

Page copied for reference below....

4.3 Setting the Application Home Page

Now that we have made the controller and view, we need to tell Rails when we want “Hello Rails!” to show up. In our case, we want it to show up when we navigate to the root URL of our site,http://localhost:3000, instead of the “Welcome Aboard” smoke test.

The first step to doing this is to delete the default page from your application:

$ rm public/index.html

We need to do this as Rails will deliver any static file in the public directory in preference to any dynamic content we generate from the controllers.

Now, you have to tell Rails where your actual home page is located. Open the fileconfig/routes.rb in your editor. This is your application’s routing file which holds entries in a special DSL (domain-specific language) that tells Rails how to connect incoming requests to controllers and actions. This file contains many sample routes on commented lines, and one of them actually shows you how to connect the root of your site to a specific controller and action. Find the line beginning with root :to and uncomment it. It should look something like the following:

Blog::Application.routes.draw do     #...   # You can have the root of your site routed with "root"   # just remember to delete public/index.html.   root :to => "home#index"

The root :to => "home#index" tells Rails to map the root action to the home controller’s index action. 

[Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas]

Em 18-10-2012 23:26, Baruch Atta escreveu:

Reading the fine manual, I am doing the tasks in order: �I got to 4.3 and hit a wall.

"The�root :to => "home#index"�tells Rails to map the root..."

To map the root path ("/"), not your project root.

In any operating system that I have used, home#index is not a path. �I want to route to the path�C:\Documents and Settings\Baruch\blog> �where i created my "blog" first application as listed in the fine manual. This step 4.3 (I would think) is telling me that I can list my blog folder as the root of my application and it will be used as the index.htm root folder.�

My question is How do I actually "root" to my "blog" folder?

My observation is Why doesn't the fine manual actually tell me this, at this point?

Page copied for reference below....

4.3 Setting the Application Home Page

Now that we have made the controller and view, we need to tell Rails when we want �Hello Rails!� to show up. In our case, we want it to show up when we navigate to the root�URL�of our site,http://localhost:3000, instead of the �Welcome Aboard� smoke test.

The first step to doing this is to delete the default page from your application:

$ rm public/index.html

We need to do this as Rails will deliver any static file in the�public�directory in preference to any dynamic content we generate from the controllers.

Now, you have to tell Rails where your actual home page is located. Open the fileconfig/routes.rb�in your editor. This is your application�s�routing file�which holds entries in a special�DSL�(domain-specific language) that tells Rails how to connect incoming requests to controllers and actions. This file contains many sample routes on commented lines, and one of them actually shows you how to connect the root of your site to a specific controller and action. Find the line beginning with�root :to�and uncomment it. It should look something like the following:

Blog::Application.routes.draw do � ��#... ��# You can have the root of your site routed with "root" ��# just remember to delete public/index.html. ��root :to => "home#index"

The�root :to => "home#index"�tells Rails to map the root action to the home controller�s index action.�

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[Robb Shecter]

On Thursday, October 18, 2012 7:26:49 PM UTC-7, Baruch Atta wrote:

Reading the fine manual, I am doing the tasks in order:  I got to 4.3 and hit a wall.

"The root :to => "home#index" tells Rails to map the root..."

I realize this is an old post, but I think that this is valuable feedback. In the quoted page, I see that the text could be clearer: 

Now, you have to tell Rails where your actual home page is located.

 

This is actually not accurate. What we're doing is telling Rails which controller and action will serve the home page. And that distinction is the core of Baruch's confusion. I'll submit a change.