Rails: Mapping root_url to an external url

Question

We're using an external CMS to manage our site and I'd like to ensure that inside of our Rails app, root_url points out to that external url. Is there any way we can do this?

Something like:

root :to => "http://wwww.example.com"

Answer 1

You can match the root of your application like this to redirect to an external URL

#
# config/routes.rb
#

root :to => redirect("http://www.google.com/")

Answer 2

As @Digi_Cazter answered correctly you can do this by adding this

root :to => redirect("http://www.google.com/")

I would like to use such redirects from app only if I want specific url's to be redirected.

I would suggest you to redirect the request directly form the webserver you are using may be apache-httpd or nginx or whichever you may be using instead of passing it to app and then redirecting it.