Another point to take into account is that the "root" route can be used for any namespace, which is the "root" for that particular namespace. With no namespace, it's the "root" page, ou home page as you say.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Richard Schneeman < [email protected]> wrote: > 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]> wrote: > > For a domain, say "example.org", you would call "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]. > 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. > > > > > -- > 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. > > > > > -- > 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. > > > -- At. Carlos Antonio -- 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.
