Just getting started. Don't understand a thing.

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Reading the fine manual, I am doing the tasks in order: I got to 4.3 and hit a wall.

“The root :to => "home#index" tells Rails to map the root…”

In any operating system that I have used, home#index is not a path. I want to route to the path C:\Documents and Settings\Baruch\blog> where i created my “blog” first application as listed in the fine manual. This step 4.3 (I would think) is telling me that I can list my blog folder as the root of my application and it will be used as the index.htm root folder.

My question is How do I actually “root” to my “blog” folder?

My observation is Why doesn’t the fine manual actually tell me this, at this point?

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    Reading the fine manual, I am doing the tasks in order: �I

got to 4.3 and hit a wall.

"The�root :to => "home#index"� tells Rails to

map the root…"

To map the root path ("/"), not your project root.
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Reading the fine manual, I am doing the tasks in order: I got to 4.3 and hit a wall.

“The root :to => "home#index" tells Rails to map the root…”

I realize this is an old post, but I think that this is valuable feedback. In the quoted page, I see that the text could be clearer:

Now, you have to tell Rails where your actual home page is located.

This is actually not accurate. What we’re doing is telling Rails which controller and action will serve the home page. And that distinction is the core of Baruch’s confusion. I’ll submit a change.