Rails Routing (root :to => …)

Question

I know how to set the routes root of my rails app to a controller and an action.

But how to add an id?

/pages/show/1 should be the root.

How

Answer 1

Matthew's solution works, but I think it is more readable to fetch the object. For example, let's say you want to root to the Page#show action for the page with the name "landing". This is a bit more readable:

root :to => "pages#show", :id => Page.find_by_name("landing").id

From a performance perspective, this solution is worse because it requires an additional database query, but this solution is more readable if performance is not a high priority.