How do you get a Rails project to start with index.html.erb instead of index.html?

Question

My index.html page for my project needs some Ruby code so I need to change it to a .erb extension. How do I configure Rails to identify the index.html.erb file as the starting page of the project instead of the index.html file?

Answer 1

You need to configure the map.root path in your config/routes.rb file.

map.root :controller => "blogs"

# This would recognize http://www.example.com/ as
params = { :controller => 'blogs', :action => 'index' }

# and provide these named routes
root_url   # => 'http://www.example.com/'
root_path  # => ''

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Routing.html