Replace the default home page

Rails
#1

How to replace the default home page. I tried map.root but it didn’t
work. I should request to please provide me ways.

#2

Delete or rename public/index.html ?

Sijo

#3

Hello,

First, you should delete the file public/index.html if you want another
controller to be called on your home page.
Once it’s done, you just have to add the line
map.root :controller => ‘your_controller’
(and maybe the action required if it’s not index) to your
config/routes.rb
and it’s over.
Since routes is loaded on your server startup, you’ll have to restart it
too.

Cyril

2009/7/10 Vikas [email protected]

#4

Hello,

I’ve followed steps 1 to 5 here:
http://guides.rails.info/getting_started.html and I am getting 500 error
when trying to access http://localhost/home/index.

The standard welcome page in public worked so I assume the Mongrel is
up.

  • I deleted the welcome page;
  • Using script/generate I created home/index in app/views;
  • This is how my routes.rb looks like:

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
map.root :controller => “home”
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.:format’
end

Result: RoR custom 500 error page. What am I doing wrong?

******* Windows Vista *********

c:\RubyProjects\project_one\public>gem env
RubyGems Environment:

  • RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.5
  • RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32]
  • INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  • RUBY EXECUTABLE: c:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe
  • EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: c:/Ruby/bin
  • RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    • ruby
    • x86-mswin32-60
  • GEM PATHS:
    • c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
    • C:/Users/Victor/.gem/ruby/1.8
  • GEM CONFIGURATION:
    • :update_sources => true
    • :verbose => true
    • :benchmark => false
    • :backtrace => false
    • :bulk_threshold => 1000
  • REMOTE SOURCES:
#5

I attached the full error in development log. Looks like something wrong
with MySQL…

#6

In addition to my previous post.

I looked into development log and there is this:

Status: 500 Internal Server Error
Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO)

Where is it trying to access user “root” at “localhost”?

#7

Hi Vi Le

Assuming you gave details like username,password etc.After that
problem still exists try this from mysql konsole

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO [email protected] IDENTIFIED BY
‘root_password’ WITH GRANT

The above you can also setup to any other mysql user than root

Sijo

#8

Vi Le wrote:

In addition to my previous post.

I looked into development log and there is this:

Status: 500 Internal Server Error
Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO)

Where is it trying to access user “root” at “localhost”?

That’s a database connection error. Check your database.yml file.

Best,
–Â
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

#9

Ok, obviously this is MySQL problem. I can’t even access it via MySQL
Administrator. I get:

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using
password: YES).

I need to figure that one out first.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.