Basic Routes

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I am trying to replace the default homepage (public/index.html) to one of my controllers.

I deleted the file in 'public/index.html' created a controller called 'site' and added this line to my 'routes.rb' file...

map.connect '', :controller => 'site', :action => 'index'

But when I go to my root URL 'http://staging.mysite.com' I get a 404 error. I tested my controller by going to 'http://staging.mysite.com/ site' and 'http://staging.mysite.com/site/index’ and it works fine, and displays the correct page.

Any ideas why the routing isn't working? This seems like this is very basic, and should be a piece of cake.

-Adam D.

2

It was working all along. I didn't realize you have to restart the application after every change.

-Adam D.

3

You don't have to restart the server after every change, but you do have to restart if you change routing.

///ark