Why would I delete the index.html file in the rails application to display the controller for the root directory?

Question

I did a quick search but could not find a direct answer. New to Rails and just trying to understand why this is so. I would really appreciate it if someone could just point out a code snippet that shows where it points to index.html if it exists, or if this is the wrong way to think about it, the correct answer.

Answer 1

In Rails 3, railties defines a default middleware stack (railties / lib / rails / application.rb) that allows each type of middleware to access a request call. The first module on the stack is ActionDispatch :: Static (you can disable it using config.serve_static_assets). The static middleware module is in ActionPack (actionpack / lib / action_dispatch / middleware / static.rb). Matching lines:

path   = env['PATH_INFO'].chomp('/')
...
if file_exist?(path)
  return @file_server.call(env)

@file_server is defined above as a Rack :: File, which is located in the /lib/rack/file.rb rack. It simply reads the file and serves the contents as a body.

So, when do you delete index.html, file_exist? a call that simply passes the request to the next middleware and eventually ends up in a regular Rails router.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Rails /public/index.html, , . , , , , rm public/index.html rails.

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