I am fairly new to rails and had a question.
I am wanting to direct my controller to point to the html.erb view i created.
I have tried various versions of:
def index
render :"viewName"
end
def index
render :viewName
end
def index
render : "viewName.html.erb"
end
My router is set as such:
Rails.application.routes.draw do
root 'application#index'
end
You just need to follow the convention, if you're pointing it to the controller: Application, action: Index, then you need an "application" folder in your views, and a "index.html.erb" inside this application folder and you don't need to call any render inside the action.
So in this case create the following folder
/app/views/application
And inside it place your:
index.html.erb
On your application_controller.rb
def index; end
I wouldn't use application controller though...
If you want to render a partial then
render partial: 'some_view'
or
render 'some_view'
this will look for a file _some_view.html.erb
If you want to render some template then
render template: 'template_name'
this will look for template_name.html.erb
/app/views/application/index.html.erbfolder. And your Application controller shows an index action (even empty)def index endthen the view should be shown. (though Application controller is usually empty because it intuitively should do Nothing, there is no logic showing the index of an application. If you had a User model and controller then it makes sense to have an User#index which should return a list of users)