Rails Routing (root :to => ...)

ruby-on-rails ruby ruby-on-rails-3 routes url-routing

Had this same problem and this worked for me:

root :to => "pages#show", :id => '1'

ruby-on-rails ruby ruby-on-rails-3 routes url-routing

As of Rails 4.0, you can declare the root route like this:

root 'controller#action'

ruby-on-rails ruby ruby-on-rails-3 routes url-routing

I'm using Rails 5.1 to point the home page to a specific blog. In config/routes.rb I have ...

root 'blogs#show', {id: 1}

This will point the root route to /blogs/1

I'm doing this on a blog site I'm building. The first blog will be the main site blog as well as the homepage.

Cheers

CodeHunter