Routing problem for Rails 2 newbie

Rails
1

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

2

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.

3

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.

4

Restarting the server might do the trick in most cases

at the app level,

“ruby script/server”