Customize your splash page

All you have to do is define a view as "app/views/home/_show.html.haml" to define your own splash page for your diaspora pod.

The file you need to create in the directory "app/views/home/" is written in haml syntax. See haml.

A very basic example of this "_show.html.haml" file would be something like:

#content
  .center
    %h2 Welcome to my pod!

You should also delete the "index.html" or "default.html" (or whatever default files your web server may use) in the app/public directory, if any, as rails gives precedence to static content before serving dynamic content.

That should do it. If needed examine the "routes.rb" to ensure the section below exists in the file.

The file config/routes.rb lists the mapping between requests and controllers. The lines concerning the splash screen are:

  # Startpage
  root :to => 'home#show'