Do I need a slash in front of rails route

Question

I have the following url structure in rails routes:

match '/financial-dictionary/:letter' => 'learning_center#dictionary', :as => :lc_dictionary

Do i need a leading slash in front of "financial-dictionary"? What will happen if i remove it?

Answer 1

Short answer: nope, you don't need.

You might want to read http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html :)