Refactoring Routes

Key learning:

Routes can be refactored quite simply! for example, the route

get ("/", ({ :controller => "controller_name", :action => "action_name"})

can be simplified to

root "controller_name#action_name"

Fundamentally, this works because the entire argument is just the method being applied to the hash relationship between the controller and the action.

Root is a specific method that works for the index file.

Comments

[disanchez27edu]

Can you explain why we use the url helper in the controller and not the path?

[disanchez27edu]

Questions: why do we not use the : in front of the prefix when we are embedding ruby into an html file?