Step 3: Add the Route

Finally, update the routes.rb file so our application parses the route and uses the controller action to generate the final view.

# config/routes.rb

require_relative '../router'

Router.draw do
  get('/') { "Akshay's Blog" }

  get '/articles/index'
end

That's it. We're done. Start the server and navigate to /articles/index path, you should see this:

Now we could stop here. However, there's a small refactoring we could do to make the controller look more like Rails.

Let's extract the constructor to the base class.