How do I change the index page for rails?

Question

I know that to change the index page for rails I need to do three things: delete the index.html, do something with routes.rb, and probably make an action that the route will point to. It's the details that I am a little fuzzy on :-)

Answer 1

Ok, I figured it out. Basically you

1. Delete public.html
2. Add 'map.root :controller => "foo"' to routes.rb
3. and then of course create the controller foo with the action index.

Answer 2

Don't forget to restart your server.

You can also run rake routes to show all the known routes and make sure everything looks sane.

Answer 3

Follow Frew's steps and, as step 4, put a little html code in the index view file in the /views/foo folder to test it all.

Example:

<h1>My New Index Page</h1>
<p>Some text here.</p>