Routing problem for Rails 2 newbie

I'm running: WinXP-Pro/SP3 Rails 2.3.5 MySQL 5.0.37-community-nt Firefox 3.6 browser Mongrel web server

I have a Rails 2 app that initially brought up the Welcome screen

I ran:       ruby script/generate scaffold vendor nickname:string qbname:string

I discovered that config\routes.ruby.rb now starts out:       ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|              map.resources :vendors

Following the advice of routes.rb, I renamed public\index.html by appending "-renamed"

When I give the browser http://localhost:3000/, I get: Routing Error No route matches "/" with {:method=>:get}

So the map.resources :vendors is not enough to get to:      app\controllers\application_controller.rb and      app\views\vendors\something-or-other

Suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance, Richard

Hi,

With that configuration in routes.rb you have to go to http://localhost:3000/vendors to get to your index action of the controller.

If you want to go directly you need to add map.root :controller => 'vendors', :action => 'index' to your routes.rb

I hope that helps.

That was perfect. I studying an on-line tutorial on REST, but its slow going. Thanks for help to get my Rails app to run.

Restarting the server might do the trick in most cases

at the app level,

"ruby script/server"