From 3dde99d01c71dad36e483d0d1957639fde255c27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christine Hertzel Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 14:26:54 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Reverting commit regarding public/index.html (no longer in Rails 4.) This reverts commit f8461f73c77c186ad0aa735fe9877990bffe1990. --- guides/source/getting_started.md | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md index 742b8ae548..a1d7e955c8 100644 --- a/guides/source/getting_started.md +++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md @@ -241,8 +241,6 @@ root to: "welcome#index" The `root to: "welcome#index"` tells Rails to map requests to the root of the application to the welcome controller's index action and `get "welcome/index"` tells Rails to map requests to to the welcome controller's index action. This was created earlier when you ran the controller generator (`rails generate controller welcome index`). -You should also remove the `public/index.html` file because it might otherwise take precedence over the routes defined in `config/routes.rb`. - If you navigate to in your browser, you'll see the `Hello, Rails!` message you put into `app/views/welcome/index.html.erb`, indicating that this new route is indeed going to `WelcomeController`'s `index` action and is rendering the view correctly. TIP: For more information about routing, refer to [Rails Routing from the Outside In](routing.html).