Change default root route helper

[banyan]

Since this commit (2ee4dd8), it is allowed to use this root route syntax.

 root "welcome#index"

What about using this syntax as default in a simple and consistent way?

[timmillwood]

• 1 Makes sense.

[frodsan]

👍 /cc @guilleiguaran

[frodsan]

@banyan Thanks! ❤️

[guilleiguaran]

Thanks!!!

[banyan]

Thanks!

[rubys]

I'm not a fan. Agile Development with Rails, I suggest adding "as: 'store'". As the root helper takes only one parameter, so you will need to add 'to:'. This is not obvious.

Perhaps the root helper could be modified to accept two parameters, and if the first is a string and the second is a hash will construct the proper hash? Example:

root 'store#index', as: 'store'

[banyan]

@rubys

The root helper can be used only once for each application.
In case of root route, URL helpers root_path and root_url are defined by Rails.
So I haven't had the idea that second hash will be passed in.
Certainly it becomes not obvious in such cases. hmm...

[carlosantoniodasilva]

@banyan actually you can use root inside namespaces/scopes as well, generating different xxx_root_url helpers:

MasterApp::Application.routes.draw do
  namespace :admin do
    root to: "admin#index"
  end

  root to: "home#index"
end

$ rake routes
    Prefix Verb URI Pattern      Controller#Action
admin_root GET /admin(.:format) admin/admin#index
      root GET /                home#index

[banyan]

oh, I didn't know that. Thank you for letting me know that. @carlosantoniodasilva