Welcome/home page in Ruby on Rails - best practice

Question

My homepage (or welcome page) will consist of data from two models (lets call them authors and posts). I am new to rails and not sure what is the best way to accomplish this

Answer 1

The best practice would be your first suggestion. Create a 'welcome' controller and call the records from whichever models you want. Have a root route point to that controller. Very clean and proper.