Listing 5.22 The commented-out hint for defining the root route.
config/routes.rb

Using Listing 5.22 as a model, we arrive at Listing 5.23 to route the root URI / to the Home page.

Listing 5.23 Adding a mapping for the root route.
config/routes.rb

This code maps the root URI / to /static pages/home, and also gives URI helpers as follows:

We should also heed the comment in Listing 5.22 and delete public/index.html to prevent Rails from rendering the default page (Figure 1.3) when we visit /. You can of course simply remove the file by trashing it, but if you’re using Git for version control there’s a way to tell Git about the removal at the same time using git rm:

With that, all of the routes for static pages are working, and the tests should pass:

Now we just have to fill in the links in the layout.