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<h3 id="_singular_resources">3.5. Singular Resources</h3>
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<div class="para"><p>You can also apply RESTful routing to singleton resources within your application. In this case, you use <tt>map.resource</tt> instead of <tt>map.resources</tt> and the route generation is slightly different. For example, a routing entry of</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resource <span style="color: #990000">:</span>geocoder
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action
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return an HTML form for creating the new geocoder
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|
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|
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/geocoder
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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create
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|
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|
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|
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create the new geocoder
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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GET
|
|
791
|
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792
|
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|
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|
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/geocoder
|
|
794
|
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|
|
795
|
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|
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|
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Geocoders
|
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797
|
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</td>
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|
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|
|
799
|
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show
|
|
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|
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</td>
|
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|
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|
|
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|
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display the one and only geocoder resource
|
|
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|
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</td>
|
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|
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</tr>
|
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805
|
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<tr>
|
|
806
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
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|
-
GET
|
|
808
|
-
</td>
|
|
809
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
810
|
-
/geocoder/edit
|
|
811
|
-
</td>
|
|
812
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
813
|
-
Geocoders
|
|
814
|
-
</td>
|
|
815
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
816
|
-
edit
|
|
817
|
-
</td>
|
|
818
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
819
|
-
return an HTML form for editing the geocoder
|
|
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|
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</td>
|
|
821
|
-
</tr>
|
|
822
|
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<tr>
|
|
823
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
824
|
-
PUT
|
|
825
|
-
</td>
|
|
826
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
827
|
-
/geocoder
|
|
828
|
-
</td>
|
|
829
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
830
|
-
Geocoders
|
|
831
|
-
</td>
|
|
832
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
833
|
-
update
|
|
834
|
-
</td>
|
|
835
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
836
|
-
update the one and only geocoder resource
|
|
837
|
-
</td>
|
|
838
|
-
</tr>
|
|
839
|
-
<tr>
|
|
840
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
841
|
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DELETE
|
|
842
|
-
</td>
|
|
843
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
844
|
-
/geocoder
|
|
845
|
-
</td>
|
|
846
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
847
|
-
Geocoders
|
|
848
|
-
</td>
|
|
849
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
850
|
-
destroy
|
|
851
|
-
</td>
|
|
852
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
853
|
-
delete the geocoder resource
|
|
854
|
-
</td>
|
|
855
|
-
</tr>
|
|
856
|
-
</tbody>
|
|
857
|
-
</table>
|
|
858
|
-
</div>
|
|
859
|
-
<div class="admonitionblock">
|
|
860
|
-
<table><tr>
|
|
861
|
-
<td class="icon">
|
|
862
|
-
<img src="./images/icons/note.png" alt="Note" />
|
|
863
|
-
</td>
|
|
864
|
-
<td class="content">Even though the name of the resource is singular in <tt>routes.rb</tt>, the matching controller is still plural.</td>
|
|
865
|
-
</tr></table>
|
|
866
|
-
</div>
|
|
867
|
-
<div class="para"><p>A singular RESTful route generates an abbreviated set of helpers:</p></div>
|
|
868
|
-
<div class="ilist"><ul>
|
|
869
|
-
<li>
|
|
870
|
-
<p>
|
|
871
|
-
<tt>new_geocoder_url</tt> and <tt>new_geocoder_path</tt> map to the path for the new action
|
|
872
|
-
</p>
|
|
873
|
-
</li>
|
|
874
|
-
<li>
|
|
875
|
-
<p>
|
|
876
|
-
<tt>edit_geocoder_url</tt> and <tt>edit_geocoder_path</tt> map to the path for the edit action
|
|
877
|
-
</p>
|
|
878
|
-
</li>
|
|
879
|
-
<li>
|
|
880
|
-
<p>
|
|
881
|
-
<tt>geocoder_url</tt> and <tt>geocoder_path</tt> map to the path for the create, show, update, and destroy actions
|
|
882
|
-
</p>
|
|
883
|
-
</li>
|
|
884
|
-
</ul></div>
|
|
885
|
-
<h3 id="_customizing_resources">3.6. Customizing Resources</h3>
|
|
886
|
-
<div class="para"><p>Although the conventions of RESTful routing are likely to be sufficient for many applications, there are a number of ways to customize the way that RESTful routes work. These options include:</p></div>
|
|
887
|
-
<div class="ilist"><ul>
|
|
888
|
-
<li>
|
|
889
|
-
<p>
|
|
890
|
-
<tt>:controller</tt>
|
|
891
|
-
</p>
|
|
892
|
-
</li>
|
|
893
|
-
<li>
|
|
894
|
-
<p>
|
|
895
|
-
<tt>:singular</tt>
|
|
896
|
-
</p>
|
|
897
|
-
</li>
|
|
898
|
-
<li>
|
|
899
|
-
<p>
|
|
900
|
-
<tt>:requirements</tt>
|
|
901
|
-
</p>
|
|
902
|
-
</li>
|
|
903
|
-
<li>
|
|
904
|
-
<p>
|
|
905
|
-
<tt>:conditions</tt>
|
|
906
|
-
</p>
|
|
907
|
-
</li>
|
|
908
|
-
<li>
|
|
909
|
-
<p>
|
|
910
|
-
<tt>:as</tt>
|
|
911
|
-
</p>
|
|
912
|
-
</li>
|
|
913
|
-
<li>
|
|
914
|
-
<p>
|
|
915
|
-
<tt>:path_names</tt>
|
|
916
|
-
</p>
|
|
917
|
-
</li>
|
|
918
|
-
<li>
|
|
919
|
-
<p>
|
|
920
|
-
<tt>:path_prefix</tt>
|
|
921
|
-
</p>
|
|
922
|
-
</li>
|
|
923
|
-
<li>
|
|
924
|
-
<p>
|
|
925
|
-
<tt>:name_prefix</tt>
|
|
926
|
-
</p>
|
|
927
|
-
</li>
|
|
928
|
-
<li>
|
|
929
|
-
<p>
|
|
930
|
-
<tt>:only</tt>
|
|
931
|
-
</p>
|
|
932
|
-
</li>
|
|
933
|
-
<li>
|
|
934
|
-
<p>
|
|
935
|
-
<tt>:except</tt>
|
|
936
|
-
</p>
|
|
937
|
-
</li>
|
|
938
|
-
</ul></div>
|
|
939
|
-
<div class="para"><p>You can also add additional routes via the <tt>:member</tt> and <tt>:collection</tt> options, which are discussed later in this guide.</p></div>
|
|
940
|
-
<h4 id="_using_controller">3.6.1. Using :controller</h4>
|
|
941
|
-
<div class="para"><p>The <tt>:controller</tt> option lets you use a controller name that is different from the public-facing resource name. For example, this routing entry:</p></div>
|
|
942
|
-
<div class="listingblock">
|
|
943
|
-
<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
|
|
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|
-
by Lorenzo Bettini
|
|
945
|
-
http://www.lorenzobettini.it
|
|
946
|
-
http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
|
|
947
|
-
<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>controller <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"images"</span>
|
|
948
|
-
</tt></pre></div></div>
|
|
949
|
-
<div class="para"><p>will recognize incoming URLs containing <tt>photo</tt> but route the requests to the Images controller:</p></div>
|
|
950
|
-
<div class="tableblock">
|
|
951
|
-
<table rules="all"
|
|
952
|
-
frame="hsides"
|
|
953
|
-
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
|
|
954
|
-
<col width="125" />
|
|
955
|
-
<col width="182" />
|
|
956
|
-
<col width="137" />
|
|
957
|
-
<col width="102" />
|
|
958
|
-
<col width="502" />
|
|
959
|
-
<thead>
|
|
960
|
-
<tr>
|
|
961
|
-
<th align="left">
|
|
962
|
-
HTTP verb
|
|
963
|
-
</th>
|
|
964
|
-
<th align="left">
|
|
965
|
-
URL
|
|
966
|
-
</th>
|
|
967
|
-
<th align="left">
|
|
968
|
-
controller
|
|
969
|
-
</th>
|
|
970
|
-
<th align="left">
|
|
971
|
-
action
|
|
972
|
-
</th>
|
|
973
|
-
<th align="left">
|
|
974
|
-
used for
|
|
975
|
-
</th>
|
|
976
|
-
</tr>
|
|
977
|
-
</thead>
|
|
978
|
-
<tbody valign="top">
|
|
979
|
-
<tr>
|
|
980
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
981
|
-
GET
|
|
982
|
-
</td>
|
|
983
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
984
|
-
/photos
|
|
985
|
-
</td>
|
|
986
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
987
|
-
Images
|
|
988
|
-
</td>
|
|
989
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
990
|
-
index
|
|
991
|
-
</td>
|
|
992
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
993
|
-
display a list of all images
|
|
994
|
-
</td>
|
|
995
|
-
</tr>
|
|
996
|
-
<tr>
|
|
997
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
998
|
-
GET
|
|
999
|
-
</td>
|
|
1000
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1001
|
-
/photos/new
|
|
1002
|
-
</td>
|
|
1003
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1004
|
-
Images
|
|
1005
|
-
</td>
|
|
1006
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1007
|
-
new
|
|
1008
|
-
</td>
|
|
1009
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1010
|
-
return an HTML form for creating a new image
|
|
1011
|
-
</td>
|
|
1012
|
-
</tr>
|
|
1013
|
-
<tr>
|
|
1014
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
1015
|
-
POST
|
|
1016
|
-
</td>
|
|
1017
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1018
|
-
/photos
|
|
1019
|
-
</td>
|
|
1020
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
1021
|
-
Images
|
|
1022
|
-
</td>
|
|
1023
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
1024
|
-
create
|
|
1025
|
-
</td>
|
|
1026
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
1027
|
-
create a new image
|
|
1028
|
-
</td>
|
|
1029
|
-
</tr>
|
|
1030
|
-
<tr>
|
|
1031
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
1032
|
-
GET
|
|
1033
|
-
</td>
|
|
1034
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
1035
|
-
/photos/1
|
|
1036
|
-
</td>
|
|
1037
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1038
|
-
Images
|
|
1039
|
-
</td>
|
|
1040
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
1041
|
-
show
|
|
1042
|
-
</td>
|
|
1043
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
1044
|
-
display a specific image
|
|
1045
|
-
</td>
|
|
1046
|
-
</tr>
|
|
1047
|
-
<tr>
|
|
1048
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
1049
|
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GET
|
|
1050
|
-
</td>
|
|
1051
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1052
|
-
/photos/1/edit
|
|
1053
|
-
</td>
|
|
1054
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1055
|
-
Images
|
|
1056
|
-
</td>
|
|
1057
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1058
|
-
edit
|
|
1059
|
-
</td>
|
|
1060
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1061
|
-
return an HTML form for editing a image
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</td>
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<td class="content">The helpers will be generated with the name of the resource, not the name of the controller. So in this case, you'd still get <tt>photos_path</tt>, <tt>new_photo_path</tt>, and so on.</td>
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</tr></table>
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<h3 id="_controller_namespaces_and_routing">3.7. Controller Namespaces and Routing</h3>
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<div class="para"><p>Rails allows you to group your controllers into namespaces by saving them in folders underneath <tt>app/controllers</tt>. The <tt>:controller</tt> option provides a convenient way to use these routes. For example, you might have a resource whose controller is purely for admin users in the <tt>admin</tt> folder:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>adminphotos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>controller <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"admin/photos"</span>
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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<div class="para"><p>If you use controller namespaces, you need to be aware of a subtlety in the Rails routing code: it always tries to preserve as much of the namespace from the previous request as possible. For example, if you are on a view generated from the <tt>adminphoto_path</tt> helper, and you follow a link generated with <tt><%= link_to "show", adminphoto(1) %></tt> you will end up on the view generated by <tt>admin/photos/show</tt> but you will also end up in the same place if you have <tt><%= link_to "show", {:controller ⇒ "photos", :action ⇒ "show"} %></tt> because Rails will generate the show URL relative to the current URL.</p></div>
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</td>
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<td class="content">If you want to guarantee that a link goes to a top-level controller, use a preceding slash to anchor the controller name: <tt><%= link_to "show", {:controller ⇒ "/photos", :action ⇒ "show"} %></tt></td>
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</tr></table>
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</div>
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<div class="para"><p>You can also specify a controller namespace with the <tt>:namespace</tt> option instead of a path:</p></div>
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<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>adminphotos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>namespace <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"admin"</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>controller <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"photos"</span>
|
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|
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</tt></pre></div></div>
|
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1135
|
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<div class="para"><p>This can be especially useful when combined with <tt>with_options</tt> to map multiple namespaced routes together:</p></div>
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|
-
<div class="listingblock">
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|
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<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
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|
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|
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|
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1141
|
-
<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>with_options<span style="color: #990000">(:</span>namespace <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"admin"</span><span style="color: #990000">)</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">do</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">|</span>admin<span style="color: #990000">|</span>
|
|
1142
|
-
admin<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>videos
|
|
1143
|
-
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span>
|
|
1144
|
-
</tt></pre></div></div>
|
|
1145
|
-
<div class="para"><p>That would give you routing for <tt>admin/photos</tt> and <tt>admin/videos</tt> controllers.</p></div>
|
|
1146
|
-
<h4 id="_using_singular">3.7.1. Using :singular</h4>
|
|
1147
|
-
<div class="para"><p>If for some reason Rails isn't doing what you want in converting the plural resource name to a singular name in member routes, you can override its judgment with the <tt>:singular</tt> option:</p></div>
|
|
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|
-
<div class="listingblock">
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|
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<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
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|
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|
-
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|
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1153
|
-
<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>teeth<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>singular <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"tooth"</span>
|
|
1154
|
-
</tt></pre></div></div>
|
|
1155
|
-
<div class="admonitionblock">
|
|
1156
|
-
<table><tr>
|
|
1157
|
-
<td class="icon">
|
|
1158
|
-
<img src="./images/icons/tip.png" alt="Tip" />
|
|
1159
|
-
</td>
|
|
1160
|
-
<td class="content">Depending on the other code in your application, you may prefer to add additional rules to the <tt>Inflector</tt> class instead.</td>
|
|
1161
|
-
</tr></table>
|
|
1162
|
-
</div>
|
|
1163
|
-
<h4 id="_using_requirements">3.7.2. Using :requirements</h4>
|
|
1164
|
-
<div class="para"><p>You an use the <tt>:requirements</tt> option in a RESTful route to impose a format on the implied <tt>:id</tt> parameter in the singular routes. For example:</p></div>
|
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1165
|
-
<div class="listingblock">
|
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|
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<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
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|
-
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|
-
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1169
|
-
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|
|
1170
|
-
<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>requirements <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">{</span><span style="color: #990000">:</span>id <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF6600">/[A-Z][A-Z][0-9]+/</span><span style="color: #FF0000">}</span>
|
|
1171
|
-
</tt></pre></div></div>
|
|
1172
|
-
<div class="para"><p>This declaration constrains the <tt>:id</tt> parameter to match the supplied regular expression. So, in this case, <tt>/photos/1</tt> would no longer be recognized by this route, but <tt>/photos/RR27</tt> would.</p></div>
|
|
1173
|
-
<h4 id="_using_conditions">3.7.3. Using :conditions</h4>
|
|
1174
|
-
<div class="para"><p>Conditions in Rails routing are currently used only to set the HTTP verb for individual routes. Although in theory you can set this for RESTful routes, in practice there is no good reason to do so. (You'll learn more about conditions in the discussion of classic routing later in this guide.)</p></div>
|
|
1175
|
-
<h4 id="_using_as">3.7.4. Using :as</h4>
|
|
1176
|
-
<div class="para"><p>The <tt>:as</tt> option lets you override the normal naming for the actual generated paths. For example:</p></div>
|
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|
-
<div class="listingblock">
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<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
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|
-
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|
|
1182
|
-
<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>as <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"images"</span>
|
|
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|
-
</tt></pre></div></div>
|
|
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|
-
<div class="para"><p>will recognize incoming URLs containing <tt>image</tt> but route the requests to the Photos controller:</p></div>
|
|
1185
|
-
<div class="tableblock">
|
|
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|
-
<table rules="all"
|
|
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|
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frame="hsides"
|
|
1188
|
-
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
|
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|
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|
|
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|
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<col width="182" />
|
|
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|
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|
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|
-
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|
|
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|
-
<col width="502" />
|
|
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|
-
<thead>
|
|
1195
|
-
<tr>
|
|
1196
|
-
<th align="left">
|
|
1197
|
-
HTTP verb
|
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|
-
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|
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URL
|
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|
-
</th>
|
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|
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|
-
controller
|
|
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|
-
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|
|
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|
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|
|
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|
-
action
|
|
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|
-
</th>
|
|
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|
-
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|
|
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|
-
used for
|
|
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|
-
</th>
|
|
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|
-
</tr>
|
|
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|
-
</thead>
|
|
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|
-
<tbody valign="top">
|
|
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|
-
<tr>
|
|
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|
-
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|
|
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|
-
GET
|
|
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|
-
</td>
|
|
1218
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
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|
-
/images
|
|
1220
|
-
</td>
|
|
1221
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
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|
-
Photos
|
|
1223
|
-
</td>
|
|
1224
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1225
|
-
index
|
|
1226
|
-
</td>
|
|
1227
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1228
|
-
display a list of all photos
|
|
1229
|
-
</td>
|
|
1230
|
-
</tr>
|
|
1231
|
-
<tr>
|
|
1232
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1233
|
-
GET
|
|
1234
|
-
</td>
|
|
1235
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1236
|
-
/images/new
|
|
1237
|
-
</td>
|
|
1238
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1239
|
-
Photos
|
|
1240
|
-
</td>
|
|
1241
|
-
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|
|
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|
-
new
|
|
1243
|
-
</td>
|
|
1244
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1245
|
-
return an HTML form for creating a new photo
|
|
1246
|
-
</td>
|
|
1247
|
-
</tr>
|
|
1248
|
-
<tr>
|
|
1249
|
-
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|
|
1250
|
-
POST
|
|
1251
|
-
</td>
|
|
1252
|
-
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|
|
1253
|
-
/images
|
|
1254
|
-
</td>
|
|
1255
|
-
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|
|
1256
|
-
Photos
|
|
1257
|
-
</td>
|
|
1258
|
-
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|
|
1259
|
-
create
|
|
1260
|
-
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|
|
1261
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1262
|
-
create a new photo
|
|
1263
|
-
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|
|
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|
-
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|
|
1265
|
-
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|
|
1266
|
-
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|
|
1267
|
-
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|
|
1268
|
-
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|
|
1269
|
-
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|
|
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|
-
/images/1
|
|
1271
|
-
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|
|
1272
|
-
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|
|
1273
|
-
Photos
|
|
1274
|
-
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|
|
1275
|
-
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|
|
1276
|
-
show
|
|
1277
|
-
</td>
|
|
1278
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
1279
|
-
display a specific photo
|
|
1280
|
-
</td>
|
|
1281
|
-
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|
|
1282
|
-
<tr>
|
|
1283
|
-
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|
|
1284
|
-
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|
|
1285
|
-
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|
|
1286
|
-
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|
|
1287
|
-
/images/1/edit
|
|
1288
|
-
</td>
|
|
1289
|
-
<td align="left">
|
|
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|
-
Photos
|
|
1291
|
-
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|
|
1292
|
-
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|
|
1293
|
-
edit
|
|
1294
|
-
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|
|
1295
|
-
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|
|
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|
-
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|
|
1297
|
-
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|
|
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|
-
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|
|
1299
|
-
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|
|
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|
-
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|
|
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|
-
PUT
|
|
1302
|
-
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|
|
1303
|
-
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|
|
1304
|
-
/images/1
|
|
1305
|
-
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|
|
1306
|
-
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|
|
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|
-
Photos
|
|
1308
|
-
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|
|
1309
|
-
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|
|
1310
|
-
update
|
|
1311
|
-
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|
|
1312
|
-
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|
|
1313
|
-
update a specific photo
|
|
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|
-
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|
|
1315
|
-
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|
|
1316
|
-
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|
|
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|
-
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|
|
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|
-
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|
|
1319
|
-
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|
|
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|
-
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|
|
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|
-
/images/1
|
|
1322
|
-
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|
|
1323
|
-
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|
|
1324
|
-
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|
|
1325
|
-
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|
|
1326
|
-
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|
|
1327
|
-
destroy
|
|
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|
-
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|
|
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|
-
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|
|
1330
|
-
delete a specific photo
|
|
1331
|
-
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|
|
1332
|
-
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|
|
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|
-
</tbody>
|
|
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|
-
</table>
|
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|
-
</div>
|
|
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|
-
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|
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<table><tr>
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
-
</td>
|
|
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|
-
<td class="content">The helpers will be generated with the name of the resource, not the path name. So in this case, you'd still get <tt>photos_path</tt>, <tt>new_photo_path</tt>, and so on.</td>
|
|
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|
-
</tr></table>
|
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>path_names <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">{</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>new <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'make'</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>edit <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'change'</span> <span style="color: #FF0000">}</span>
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<div class="para"><p>This would cause the routing to recognize URLs such as</p></div>
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<pre><tt>config<span style="color: #990000">.</span>action_controller<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources_path_names <span style="color: #990000">=</span> <span style="color: #FF0000">{</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>new <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'make'</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>edit <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'change'</span> <span style="color: #FF0000">}</span>
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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<h4 id="_using_path_prefix">3.7.6. Using :path_prefix</h4>
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<div class="para"><p>The <tt>:path_prefix</tt> option lets you add additional parameters that will be prefixed to the recognized paths. For example, suppose each photo in your application belongs to a particular photographer. In that case, you might declare this route:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>path_prefix <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'/photographers/:photographer_id'</span>
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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<div class="para"><p>Routes recognized by this entry would include:</p></div>
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<td class="content">In most cases, it's simpler to recognize URLs of this sort by creating nested resources, as discussed in the next section.</td>
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<img src="./images/icons/note.png" alt="Note" />
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<td class="content">You can also use <tt>:path_prefix</tt> with non-RESTful routes.</td>
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|
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</tr></table>
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<h4 id="_using_name_prefix">3.7.7. Using :name_prefix</h4>
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<div class="para"><p>You can use the :name_prefix option to avoid collisions between routes. This is most useful when you have two resources with the same name that use <tt>:path_prefix</tt> to map differently. For example:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>path_prefix <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'/photographers/:photographer_id'</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>name_prefix <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'photographer_'</span>
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map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>path_prefix <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'/agencies/:agency_id'</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>name_prefix <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'agency_'</span>
|
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|
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</tt></pre></div></div>
|
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|
-
<div class="para"><p>This combination will give you route helpers such as <tt>photographer_photos_path</tt> and <tt>agency_edit_photo_path</tt> to use in your code.</p></div>
|
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|
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<div class="admonitionblock">
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<table><tr>
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<img src="./images/icons/note.png" alt="Note" />
|
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|
-
</td>
|
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|
-
<td class="content">You can also use <tt>:name_prefix</tt> with non-RESTful routes.</td>
|
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|
-
</tr></table>
|
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|
-
</div>
|
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|
-
<h4 id="_using_only_and_except">3.7.8. Using :only and :except</h4>
|
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|
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<div class="para"><p>By default, Rails creates routes for all seven of the default actions (index, show, new, create, edit, update, and destroy) for every RESTful route in your application. You can use the <tt>:only</tt> and <tt>:except</tt> options to fine-tune this behavior. The <tt>:only</tt> option specifies that only certain routes should be generated:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>only <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #990000">[:</span>index<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>show<span style="color: #990000">]</span>
|
|
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|
-
</tt></pre></div></div>
|
|
1441
|
-
<div class="para"><p>With this declaration, a <tt>GET</tt> request to <tt>/photos</tt> would succeed, but a <tt>POST</tt> request to <tt>/photos</tt> (which would ordinarily be routed to the create action) will fail.</p></div>
|
|
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|
-
<div class="para"><p>The <tt>:except</tt> option specifies a route or list of routes that should <em>not</em> be generated:</p></div>
|
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>except <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>destroy
|
|
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|
-
</tt></pre></div></div>
|
|
1450
|
-
<div class="para"><p>In this case, all of the normal routes except the route for <tt>destroy</tt> (a <tt>DELETE</tt> request to <tt>/photos/<em>id</em></tt>) will be generated.</p></div>
|
|
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|
-
<div class="para"><p>In addition to an action or a list of actions, you can also supply the special symbols <tt>:all</tt> or <tt>:none</tt> to the <tt>:only</tt> and <tt>:except</tt> options.</p></div>
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<img src="./images/icons/tip.png" alt="Tip" />
|
|
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|
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</td>
|
|
1457
|
-
<td class="content">If your application has many RESTful routes, using <tt>:only</tt> and <tt>:accept</tt> to generate only the routes that you actually need can cut down on memory use and speed up the routing process.</td>
|
|
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|
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</tr></table>
|
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|
-
</div>
|
|
1460
|
-
<h3 id="_nested_resources">3.8. Nested Resources</h3>
|
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|
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<div class="para"><p>It's common to have resources that are logically children of other resources. For example, suppose your application includes these models:</p></div>
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<pre><tt><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">class</span></span> Magazine <span style="color: #990000"><</span> ActiveRecord<span style="color: #990000">::</span>Base
|
|
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|
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|
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|
-
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span>
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|
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|
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<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">class</span></span> Ad <span style="color: #990000"><</span> ActiveRecord<span style="color: #990000">::</span>Base
|
|
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|
-
belongs_to <span style="color: #990000">:</span>magazine
|
|
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|
-
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span>
|
|
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|
-
</tt></pre></div></div>
|
|
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|
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<div class="para"><p>Each ad is logically subservient to one magazine. Nested routes allow you to capture this relationship in your routing. In this case, you might include this route declaration:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>magazines <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">do</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">|</span>magazine<span style="color: #990000">|</span>
|
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|
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magazine<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>ads
|
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|
-
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span>
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|
-
</tt></pre></div></div>
|
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|
-
<div class="para"><p>In addition to the routes for magazines, this declaration will also create routes for ads, each of which requires the specification of a magazine in the URL:</p></div>
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-
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|
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frame="hsides"
|
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|
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<col width="502" />
|
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<thead>
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|
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HTTP verb
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|
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|
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URL
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|
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controller
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action
|
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|
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|
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<tbody valign="top">
|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
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/magazines/1/ads
|
|
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
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|
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Ads
|
|
1524
|
-
</td>
|
|
1525
|
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<td align="left">
|
|
1526
|
-
index
|
|
1527
|
-
</td>
|
|
1528
|
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|
|
1529
|
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display a list of all ads for a specific magazine
|
|
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|
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</td>
|
|
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|
-
</tr>
|
|
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|
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<tr>
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
1537
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/magazines/1/ads/new
|
|
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</td>
|
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|
|
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|
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Ads
|
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1542
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|
|
1543
|
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new
|
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|
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return an HTML form for creating a new ad belonging to a specific magazine
|
|
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|
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</td>
|
|
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1549
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|
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POST
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|
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|
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Ads
|
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|
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|
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|
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create a new ad belonging to a specific magazine
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</tr>
|
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1566
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1567
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|
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1568
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1569
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1571
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|
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|
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1574
|
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|
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|
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1577
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|
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|
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|
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display a specific ad belonging to a specific magazine
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<div class="para"><p>This will also create routing helpers such as <tt>magazine_ads_url</tt> and <tt>edit_magazine_ad_path</tt>.</p></div>
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<h4 id="_using_name_prefix_2">3.8.1. Using :name_prefix</h4>
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<div class="para"><p>The <tt>:name_prefix</tt> option overrides the automatically-generated prefix in nested route helpers. For example,</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>magazines <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">do</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">|</span>magazine<span style="color: #990000">|</span>
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magazine<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>ads<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>name_prefix <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'periodical'</span>
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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<div class="para"><p>This will create routing helpers such as <tt>periodical_ads_url</tt> and <tt>periodical_edit_ad_path</tt>. You can even use <tt>:name_prefix</tt> to suppress the prefix entirely:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>magazines <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">do</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">|</span>magazine<span style="color: #990000">|</span>
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magazine<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>ads<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>name_prefix <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">nil</span></span>
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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<div class="para"><p>This will create routing helpers such as <tt>ads_url</tt> and <tt>edit_ad_path</tt>. Note that calling these will still require supplying an article id:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>ads_url<span style="color: #990000">(</span><span style="color: #009900">@magazine</span><span style="color: #990000">)</span>
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edit_ad_path<span style="color: #990000">(</span><span style="color: #009900">@magazine</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #009900">@ad</span><span style="color: #990000">)</span>
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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<h4 id="_using_has_one_and_has_many">3.8.2. Using :has_one and :has_many</h4>
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<div class="para"><p>The <tt>:has_one</tt> and <tt>:has_many</tt> options provide a succinct notation for simple nested routes. Use <tt>:has_one</tt> to nest a singleton resource, or <tt>:has_many</tt> to nest a plural resource:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>has_one <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photographer<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>has_many <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #990000">[:</span>publications<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>versions<span style="color: #990000">]</span>
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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<div class="para"><p>This has the same effect as this set of declarations:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">do</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">|</span>photo<span style="color: #990000">|</span>
|
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photo<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resource <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photographer
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photo<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>publications
|
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|
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|
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<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span>
|
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|
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</tt></pre></div></div>
|
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|
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<h4 id="_limits_to_nesting">3.8.3. Limits to Nesting</h4>
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<div class="para"><p>You can nest resources within other nested resources if you like. For example:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>publishers <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">do</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">|</span>publisher<span style="color: #990000">|</span>
|
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|
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publisher<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>magazines <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">do</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">|</span>magazine<span style="color: #990000">|</span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span>
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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|
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<div class="para"><p>However, without the use of <tt>name_prefix ⇒ nil</tt>, deeply-nested resources quickly become cumbersome. In this case, for example, the application would recognize URLs such as</p></div>
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<pre><tt>/publishers/1/magazines/2/photos/3</tt></pre>
|
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|
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</div></div>
|
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|
-
<div class="para"><p>The corresponding route helper would be <tt>publisher_magazine_photo_url</tt>, requiring you to specify objects at all three levels. Indeed, this situation is confusing enough that a popular <a href="http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/2/5/nesting-resources">article</a> by Jamis Buck proposes a rule of thumb for good Rails design:</p></div>
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|
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<div class="para"><p><em>Resources should never be nested more than 1 level deep.</em></p></div>
|
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|
-
<h4 id="_shallow_nesting">3.8.4. Shallow Nesting</h4>
|
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|
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<div class="para"><p>The <tt>:shallow</tt> option provides an elegant solution to the difficulties of deeply-nested routes. If you specify this option at any level of routing, then paths for nested resources which reference a specific member (that is, those with an <tt>:id</tt> parameter) will not use the parent path prefix or name prefix. To see what this means, consider this set of routes:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>publishers<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>shallow <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">true</span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">do</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">|</span>publisher<span style="color: #990000">|</span>
|
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|
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publisher<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>magazines <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">do</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">|</span>magazine<span style="color: #990000">|</span>
|
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|
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magazine<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
-
</tt></pre></div></div>
|
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|
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<div class="para"><p>This will enable recognition of (among others) these routes:</p></div>
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|
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<div class="content">
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|
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<pre><tt>/publishers/1 ==> publisher_path(1)
|
|
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|
-
/publishers/1/magazines ==> publisher_magazines_path(1)
|
|
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|
-
/magazines/2 ==> magazine_path(2)
|
|
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|
-
/magazines/2/photos ==> magazines_photos_path(2)
|
|
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|
-
/photos/3 ==> photo_path(3)</tt></pre>
|
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|
-
</div></div>
|
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|
-
<div class="para"><p>With shallow nesting, you need only supply enough information to uniquely identify the resource that you want to work with. If you like, you can combine shallow nesting with the <tt>:has_one</tt> and <tt>:has_many</tt> options:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>publishers<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>has_many <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">{</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>magazines <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos <span style="color: #FF0000">}</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>shallow <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">true</span></span>
|
|
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|
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</tt></pre></div></div>
|
|
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|
-
<h3 id="_route_generation_from_arrays">3.9. Route Generation from Arrays</h3>
|
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|
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<div class="para"><p>In addition to using the generated routing helpers, Rails can also generate RESTful routes from an array of parameters. For example, suppose you have a set of routes generated with these entries in routes.rb:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>magazines <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">do</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">|</span>magazine<span style="color: #990000">|</span>
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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<div class="para"><p>Rails will generate helpers such as magazine_ad_path that you can use in building links:</p></div>
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<pre><tt><span style="color: #FF0000"><%= link_to "Ad details", magazine_ad_path(@magazine, @ad) %></span>
|
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|
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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|
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<div class="para"><p>Another way to refer to the same route is with an array of objects:</p></div>
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|
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<pre><tt><span style="color: #FF0000"><%= link_to "Ad details", [@magazine, @ad] %></span>
|
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|
-
</tt></pre></div></div>
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|
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<div class="para"><p>This format is especially useful when you might not know until runtime which of several types of object will be used in a particular link.</p></div>
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|
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<h3 id="_namespaced_resources">3.10. Namespaced Resources</h3>
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|
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<div class="para"><p>It's possible to do some quite complex things by combining <tt>:path_prefix</tt> and <tt>:name_prefix</tt>. For example, you can use the combination of these two options to move administrative resources to their own folder in your application:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>photos<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>path_prefix <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'admin'</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>controller <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'admin/photos'</span>
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map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>resources <span style="color: #990000">:</span>ratings<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>name_prefix <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'admin_photo_'</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>path_prefix <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'admin/photos/:photo_id'</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>controller <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'admin/photo_ratings'</span>
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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<div class="para"><p>This route would match <tt>photo/12</tt> or <tt>/photo/long/path/to/12</tt> equally well, creating an array of path segments as the value of <tt>params[:other]</tt>.</p></div>
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<div class="para"><p>The importance of <tt>map.with_options</tt> has declined with the introduction of RESTful routes.</p></div>
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<div class="para"><p>There's one more way in which routing can do different things depending on differences in the incoming HTTP request: by issuing a response that corresponds to what the request specifies that it will accept. In Rails routing, you can control this with the special <tt>:format</tt> parameter in the route.</p></div>
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<div class="para"><p>For instance, consider the second of the default routes in the boilerplate <tt>routes.rb</tt> file:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>connect <span style="color: #FF0000">':controller/:action/:id.:format'</span>
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<div class="para"><p>This route matches requests such as <tt>/photo/edit/1.xml</tt> or <tt>/photo/show/2.rss</tt>. Within the appropriate action code, you can issue different responses depending on the requested format:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>respond_to <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">do</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">|</span>format<span style="color: #990000">|</span>
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format<span style="color: #990000">.</span>xml <span style="color: #FF0000">{</span> render <span style="color: #990000">:</span>xml <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #009900">@photo</span><span style="color: #990000">.</span>to_xml <span style="color: #FF0000">}</span>
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<h3 id="_specifying_the_format_with_an_http_header">5.1. Specifying the Format with an HTTP Header</h3>
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<div class="para"><p>If there is no <tt>:format</tt> parameter in the route, Rails will automatically look at the HTTP Accept header to determine the desired format.</p></div>
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<h3 id="_recognized_mime_types">5.2. Recognized MIME types</h3>
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<div class="para"><p>By default, Rails recognizes <tt>html</tt>, <tt>text</tt>, <tt>json</tt>, <tt>csv</tt>, <tt>xml</tt>, <tt>rss</tt>, <tt>atom</tt>, and <tt>yaml</tt> as acceptable response types. If you need types beyond this, you can register them in your environment:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>Mime<span style="color: #990000">::</span>Type<span style="color: #990000">.</span>register <span style="color: #FF0000">"image/jpg"</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>jpg
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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<h2 id="_the_default_routes">6. The Default Routes</h2>
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<div class="para"><p>When you create a new Rails application, <tt>routes.rb</tt> is initialized with two default routes:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>connect <span style="color: #FF0000">':controller/:action/:id'</span>
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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<div class="para"><p>These routes provide reasonable defaults for many URLs, if you're not using RESTful routing.</p></div>
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<td class="content">The default routes will make every action of every controller in your application accessible to GET requests. If you've designed your application to make consistent use of RESTful and named routes, you should comment out the default routes to prevent access to your controllers through the wrong verbs. If you've had the default routes enabled during development, though, you need to be sure that you haven't unwittingly depended on them somewhere in your application - otherwise you may find mysterious failures when you disable them.</td>
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</tr></table>
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<h2 id="_the_empty_route">7. The Empty Route</h2>
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<div class="para"><p>Don't confuse the default routes with the empty route. The empty route has one specific purpose: to route requests that come in to the root of the web site. For example, if your site is example.com, then requests to <tt>http://example.com</tt> or <tt>http://example.com/</tt> will be handled by the empty route.</p></div>
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<h3 id="_using_map_root">7.1. Using map.root</h3>
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<div class="para"><p>The preferred way to set up the empty route is with the <tt>map.root</tt> command:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>root <span style="color: #990000">:</span>controller <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"pages"</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>action <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"main"</span>
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</tt></pre></div></div>
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<div class="para"><p>The use of the <tt>root</tt> method tells Rails that this route applies to requests for the root of the site.</p></div>
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2053
|
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<div class="para"><p>For better readability, you can specify an already-created route in your call to <tt>map.root</tt>:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>index <span style="color: #990000">:</span>controller <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"pages"</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>action <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"main"</span>
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|
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map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>root <span style="color: #990000">:</span>index
|
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|
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</tt></pre></div></div>
|
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|
-
<div class="para"><p>Because of the top-down processing of the file, the named route must be specified <em>before</em> the call to <tt>map.root</tt>.</p></div>
|
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2063
|
-
<h3 id="_connecting_the_empty_string">7.2. Connecting the Empty String</h3>
|
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2064
|
-
<div class="para"><p>You can also specify an empty route by explicitly connecting the empty string:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>map<span style="color: #990000">.</span>connect <span style="color: #FF0000">''</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>controller <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"pages"</span><span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>action <span style="color: #990000">=></span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"main"</span>
|
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|
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</tt></pre></div></div>
|
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|
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<div class="admonitionblock">
|
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|
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<table><tr>
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|
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<img src="./images/icons/tip.png" alt="Tip" />
|
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|
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</td>
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|
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<td class="content">If the empty route does not seem to be working in your application, make sure that you have deleted the file <tt>public/index.html</tt> from your Rails tree.</td>
|
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|
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</tr></table>
|
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|
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</div>
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|
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</div>
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<h2 id="_inspecting_and_testing_routes">8. Inspecting and Testing Routes</h2>
|
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2082
|
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<div class="sectionbody">
|
|
2083
|
-
<div class="para"><p>Routing in your application should not be a "black box" that you never open. Rails offers built-in tools for both inspecting and testing routes.</p></div>
|
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|
-
<h3 id="_seeing_existing_routes_with_rake">8.1. Seeing Existing Routes with rake</h3>
|
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2085
|
-
<div class="para"><p>If you want a complete list of all of the available routes in your application, run the <tt>rake routes</tt> command. This will dump all of your routes to the console, in the same order that they appear in <tt>routes.rb</tt>. For each route, you'll see:</p></div>
|
|
2086
|
-
<div class="ilist"><ul>
|
|
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|
-
<li>
|
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2088
|
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<p>
|
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2089
|
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The route name (if any)
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|
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</p>
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</li>
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<p>
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The HTTP verb used (if the route doesn't respond to all verbs)
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</li>
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The URL pattern
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</p>
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The routing parameters that will be generated by this URL
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</p>
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|
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</li>
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</ul></div>
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<div class="para"><p>For example, here's a small section of the <tt>rake routes</tt> output for a RESTful route:</p></div>
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|
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<div class="listingblock">
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|
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<div class="content">
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|
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<pre><tt> users GET /users {:controller=>"users", :action=>"index"}
|
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2112
|
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formatted_users GET /users.:format {:controller=>"users", :action=>"index"}
|
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|
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POST /users {:controller=>"users", :action=>"create"}
|
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POST /users.:format {:controller=>"users", :action=>"create"}</tt></pre>
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</div></div>
|
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|
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<div class="admonitionblock">
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<table><tr>
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<td class="icon">
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<img src="./images/icons/tip.png" alt="Tip" />
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