understanding rails routes: match vs root in routes.rb

Question

i am following a rails tutorial from this link: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/filling-in-the-layout#code:static_page_routes

in the /config/routes.rb file, i

Answer 1

root :to => 'pages#home'

The url / will be mapped to pagescontroller home action.

/something will be the url mapping for the pagescontroller's something action