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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?

parlia
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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

Barry Gallagher
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  • Thanks. So this would require the index.html.erb page to exist in the views folder associated with a particular controller - I have to move it out of the public folder where my current index.html file is? – parlia Jul 03 '09 at 20:47
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    Yup. I should have mentioned that you must delete the default index.html file out of your public folder before the change I listed above will take effect :) – Barry Gallagher Jul 03 '09 at 20:56
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public/index.html is a flat file, and doesn't go through any templating (everything in /public/ is like this.)

If you want templating on your index page, you need to run the request through a controller and a view. You can map the root URL of your application to a controller with map.root:

map.root :controller => 'home'
Michael Sofaer
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Or you could do root to:

config/routes.rb

    root to: 'index.html.erb'

Be sure to delete index.html file

sherodtaylor
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The answers here are now outdated. Assuming the index.html.erb file is under a controller and a view called patients. In rails 3 you would do it like this:

match "/" => "patients#index"
joscas
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