I've had similar questions from students, though I don't remember if any have specifically addressed it as `home`. What if we added the word "home" to the description of the root path that is included (and commented out) by default after `rails new`? If students don't read or ctrl-f for "home" in the default routes file, changing the name generated wouldn't help anyway.
Adding aliases could be a can of worms, why not 'welcome' or 'core' or 'main' etc. This is a relatively trivial in the grand scheme of things to discuss, open up a PR (i would prefer documentation for now) and we can talk about it there. -- Richard Schneeman http://heroku.com @schneems (http://twitter.com/schneems) On Monday, March 11, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Ryan Bigg wrote: > http://transitionculture.org/wp-content/uploads/bikeshed2.jpg > > > On 11 March 2013 07:23, Apoorv Parijat <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > For a domain, say "example.org (http://example.org)", you would call > > "example.org/ (http://example.org/)" as the "root" domain. The "root" > > domain points to the "home" page > > of the website. The idea of "root" should be made clear to students from > > the beginning. > > > > I think, since "root" is not that obscure, we can just let it be ? > > > > > > On Monday, 11 March 2013 04:12:38 UTC+5:30, Jeff Cohen wrote: > > > Maybe it's just me, but I think "home" might be a better description than > > > "root". Students ask me "how do I indicate which action is my home > > > page," not "how do I indicate which action is my root page." If this > > > sounds appealing I can try to dig through the router code and see if I > > > can submit a PR in time for Rails 4, and make "home" an alias for "root". > > > > > > But if there's actually a good reason for keeping it as "root," let me > > > know and save me the effort :-) > > > > > > Thanks! > > > Jeff > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected] > > (mailto:rubyonrails-core%[email protected]). > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
