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"

is the default route, i.e. when you go to "yourdomain.com/" it routes to the home action in the pages controller.