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

This answer is as of Rails 3.2.1.

First set up a Controller for pages, named for example static:

$ rails generate controller static

In file app/controllers/static_controller.rb:

class StaticController < ApplicationController
    def index       
    end
end

Create the new View file app/views/index.html.erb

And finally configure your config/routes.rb:

MyApp::Application.routes.draw do
   match 'home', :to => "static#index"
   root :to => "static#index"
end

This will make both /home and / go to whatever you put in the View file you just created.