On Monday, 11 March 2013 11:54:14 UTC-5, richard schneeman 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. > > Good points. Perhaps I'll instead contribute something to the Guides on the topic?
> -- > 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] > <javascript:>>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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > 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.
