In routes.rb, what does the "#" symbol mean?

Question

In Ruby on Rails, what does the # symbol mean in the following:

root to: 'stores#index', as: 'store'

I've looked everywhere for an explanation, but just can't find anything! I'm sure it's quite simple.

Answer 1

Refer here, the 'stores#index' would redirect to index action of stores controller

Answer 2

The # is used to denote that you are choosing the action (method) index from the controller (class) store. There's a little bit more to it than that, but essentially the store\index.html is routed to by the rails framework. This is part of the RESTful architecture.