Quick and Simple: How do I get rid of the subdir for my railsapp? (Making it root dir)

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Ok, I created my rails application called "word". It consists of:

controllers/application.rb (empty, whatever the default is) controllers/word.rb (my project)

views/index.rhtml (my view)

If I go to localhost:3000, I see the "welcome to rails" page. If I go to localhost:3000/word/, I get my application.

How do I make my application the root by itself, without the /word/ at the end?

I think this is a fairly straightforward issue where I'm overlooking something, but it is causing me a lot of problems when deploying the application on a web server (same problem, larger scale).

Thanks!

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Ok, I created my rails application called "word". It consists of:

controllers/application.rb (empty, whatever the default is) controllers/word.rb (my project)

views/index.rhtml (my view)

If I go to localhost:3000, I see the "welcome to rails" page. If I go to localhost:3000/word/, I get my application.

How do I make my application the root by itself, without the /word/ at the end?

I think this is a fairly straightforward issue where I'm overlooking something, but it is causing me a lot of problems when deploying the application on a web server (same problem, larger scale).

Did you read that "welcome to rails" page? Last paragraph should tell you how to do this.

HTH, Isak

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You know it's funny. I've been searching for over a day, and come up with nothing. I post this question and 20 minutes later here we are:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoConfigureTheDefaultPageForYourRailsApp

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The page I got only said:

Getting started Here's how to get rolling:

   1.       Create your databases and edit config/database.yml

      Rails needs to know your login and password.    2.       Use script/generate to create your models and controllers

      To see all available options, run it without parameters.    3.       Set up a default route and remove or rename this file

      Routes are setup in config/routes.rb.

Which didn't sound obvious at the time, but that's mostly because I'm new to rails (could you tell?).

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Routes. It's a big part of Rails. It's more than just setting the default page for your app.

basic routes: Peak Obsession

rest: http://www.softiesonrails.com/2007/3/28/rest-101-part-1-understanding-resources

You might also want to spend the $ and purchase the agile web dev with rails book from The Pragmatic Programmers