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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 10, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-main-index-html/169955 "2009-06-10T17:35:51Z")\
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**Author:**  [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-main-index-html/169955/1 "2009-06-10T17:35:51Z")
So if I want to grab info from various Models and put it on the main
Index page how does that work? Since there’s no main index view or
controller?.. or is there?..
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**Author:**  [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-main-index-html/169955/2 "2009-06-10T17:42:45Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:
> So if I want to grab info from various Models and put it on the main
> Index page how does that work? Since there’s no main index view or
> controller?.. or is there?..
There can be. You can map the root path to anything you want – check
the routing docs.
## Best,
Marnen Laibow-Koser
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid
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**Author:**  [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-main-index-html/169955/3 "2009-06-10T19:10:58Z")
Anyone know off hand what that would be to connect a controller and
view to the main index.html?
been looking around, seems this should do it?
map.connect “/”, :controller =\> ‘the5one’, :action =\> “index”
Tried a few combinations of that… can’t get it going… I’ll fiddle
around a bit more…
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**Author:**  [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-main-index-html/169955/4 "2009-06-10T19:53:12Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:
> So if I want to grab info from various Models and put it on the main
> Index page how does that work? Since there’s no main index view or
> controller?.. or is there?..
Rails’s default index.html file tells you what to do there.
–
Phlip
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**Author:**  [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-main-index-html/169955/5 "2009-06-10T23:55:31Z")
Not to beat a dead horse, but your routes.rb file is pretty clear on
this.
…
# You can have the root of your site routed with map.root – just
remember to delete public/index.html.
# map.root :controller =\> “welcome”
…
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**Author:**  [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-main-index-html/169955/6 "2009-06-10T19:15:39Z")
Got it!
Either of these work:
map.connect “”, :controller =\> ‘mycontroller’, :action =\> “index”
map.root :controller =\> “mycontroller”
I just had to delete the index.html in the public directory.