Root route in Ruby on Rails - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to set the root route to the home controller's index action.

Ruby on Rails

root to: '[1]'

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A"index#home"

B"home#index"

C"home#index_path"

D"root#index"

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Swapping controller and action names.

Adding extra suffixes like _path.

Using incorrect quotes or missing quotes.

The root route should point to the controller and action in the format "controller#action". Here, "home#index" means the index action in the home controller.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to define the root route using the to: syntax.

Ruby on Rails

root [1] 'home#index'

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Ato:

Bpath:

Croute:

Dcontroller:

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'path:' or 'route:' which are invalid keys here.

Omitting the colon after 'to'.

The root route can be defined with the 'root to:' syntax followed by a string specifying the controller and action.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the root route definition.

Ruby on Rails

root '[1]'

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Ahome#index

Bindex#home

Chome#index_path

Droot#index

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Adding '_path' to the action name.

Swapping controller and action names.

The root route should be defined with the controller and action in the format 'controller#action'. Adding '_path' or swapping names causes errors.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to define a root route that points to the welcome controller's show action.

Ruby on Rails

root to: '[1]#[2]'

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Awelcome

Bshow

Cindex

Dhome

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Swapping controller and action names.

Using incorrect controller or action names.

The root route string combines the controller and action separated by '#'. Here, 'welcome#show' points to the show action in the welcome controller.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to define a root route using the to: syntax that renders the dashboard controller's main action.

Ruby on Rails

root [1] '[2]#[3]'

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Ato:

Bdashboard

Cmain

Dhome

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using wrong keys like 'path:' or 'route:'.

Swapping controller and action names.

The root route uses 'to:' followed by the string 'dashboard#main' which points to the main action in the dashboard controller.