:as in rails routes.rb

Question

In config/routes.rb, I tried both:

root :to => \'things#index\', :as => \'things\'

and

root :to => \'         


        

Answer 1

The :as option creates a named path. You can then call this path in your controllers and views (e.g. redirect_to things_path). This isn't very useful for the root path (as it already named root), but is very useful for new routes you add.