Question

I wish to do a redirection to index.html in my application/public folder.

def get_current_user
   @current_user = current_user
   if @current_user.nil?  
      redirect_to root_path
   end 
end

How do I achieve this ?

I haven’t modified the root in my routes.rb ( Its still commented )

 # root :to => "welcome#index"

I get an error saying root_path is undefined.

How do I modify routes.rb so that root_path points to public/index.html ?

Answer 1

What you want to do is not Rails compatible.

Rails is MVC, C for controller, V for view.

So its internals need both.

Ok, public/index.html is displayed by default but it’s just because process is bypassed.

So, you could create a static controller with an index action and it’s corresponding view (just copy/paste the content of your current public/index.htmlfile in it).

Then set:

root :to => "static#index"

And please, remove the public/index.html file 🙂