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

Question

I know how to set the routes root of my rails app to a controller and an action.

But how to add an id?

/pages/show/1 should be the root.

How do I set this?

score 80 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 21 '11 at 07:38

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Had this same problem and this worked for me:

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

answered Jul 21 '11 at 07:38

Matt D.

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This is good except that root_path() is now adding `?id=1` to the url when linked from elsewhere in the app... – msanteler Jun 26 '14 at 00:42
@MatthewD - curious why would you want the root route to point to an id of one? – BenKoshy Mar 17 '16 at 04:03

score 32 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 07 '14 at 16:47

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

root 'controller#action'

edited Mar 07 '14 at 16:47

Dennis

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answered Sep 06 '13 at 21:37

Brian Petro

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But how do you incorporate the :id into the route? – dlu Feb 11 '16 at 16:49
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@dlu We can pass extra parameters. `root 'controller#action', {your_params}` – NBSamar Nov 24 '19 at 14:34

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 14 '17 at 18:26

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

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 02 '13 at 21:38

Matthew's solution works, but I think it is more readable to fetch the object. For example, let's say you want to root to the Page#show action for the page with the name "landing". This is a bit more readable:

root :to => "pages#show", :id => Page.find_by_name("landing").id

From a performance perspective, this solution is worse because it requires an additional database query, but this solution is more readable if performance is not a high priority.

Christian Fazzini · Answer 5 · 2011-06-29T02:00:55.070

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Try:

 match 'pages/show/:id' => 'pages#show', :as => :root

In Rails console. rake routes | grep root, should show something like:

root     /pages/show/:id(.:format)      {:controller=>"pages", :action=>"show"}

Hope that helps.

edited Jun 29 '11 at 02:00

answered Jun 29 '11 at 01:53

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score 2 · Answer 6 · edited Jul 14 '18 at 05:09

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Use Rails 5.1 Add this to the config/routes.rb

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

edited Jul 14 '18 at 05:09

askrynnikov

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answered Jun 17 '18 at 14:30

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