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- In addition to resource routing, Rails has powerful support for routing arbitrary URLs to actions. Here, you don't get groups of routes automatically generated by resourceful routing. Instead, you set up each route within your application separately.
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- ### Dynamic Segments
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- ### Static Segments
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- This route would respond to paths such as `/photos/show/1/with_user/2`. In this case, `params` would be `{ controller: 'photos', action: 'show', id: '1', user_id: '2' }`.
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- ### Naming Routes
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- ```ruby
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- ### HTTP Verb Constraints
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- `:constraints` takes regular expressions with the restriction that regexp anchors can't be used. For example, the following route will not work:
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- For example, the following routes would allow for `articles` with `to_param` values like `1-hello-world` that always begin with a number and `users` with `to_param` values like `david` that never begin with a number to share the root namespace:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- get '/:id', to: 'articles#show', constraints: { id: /\d.+/ }
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- get '/:username', to: 'users#show'
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- ```
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-
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- ### Request-Based Constraints
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-
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- You can also constrain a route based on any method on the [Request object](action_controller_overview.html#the-request-object) that returns a `String`.
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-
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- You specify a request-based constraint the same way that you specify a segment constraint:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- get 'photos', to: 'photos#index', constraints: { subdomain: 'admin' }
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- ```
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-
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- You can also specify constraints in a block form:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- namespace :admin do
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- constraints subdomain: 'admin' do
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- resources :photos
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- end
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- end
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- ```
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-
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- NOTE: Request constraints work by calling a method on the [Request object](action_controller_overview.html#the-request-object) with the same name as the hash key and then compare the return value with the hash value. Therefore, constraint values should match the corresponding Request object method return type. For example: `constraints: { subdomain: 'api' }` will match an `api` subdomain as expected, however using a symbol `constraints: { subdomain: :api }` will not, because `request.subdomain` returns `'api'` as a String.
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-
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- ### Advanced Constraints
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-
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- If you have a more advanced constraint, you can provide an object that responds to `matches?` that Rails should use. Let's say you wanted to route all users on a blacklist to the `BlacklistController`. You could do:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- class BlacklistConstraint
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- def initialize
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- @ips = Blacklist.retrieve_ips
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- end
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-
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- def matches?(request)
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- @ips.include?(request.remote_ip)
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- end
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- end
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-
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- Rails.application.routes.draw do
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- get '*path', to: 'blacklist#index',
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- constraints: BlacklistConstraint.new
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- end
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- ```
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-
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- You can also specify constraints as a lambda:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- Rails.application.routes.draw do
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- get '*path', to: 'blacklist#index',
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- constraints: lambda { |request| Blacklist.retrieve_ips.include?(request.remote_ip) }
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- end
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- ```
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-
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- Both the `matches?` method and the lambda gets the `request` object as an argument.
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-
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- ### Route Globbing and Wildcard Segments
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-
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- Route globbing is a way to specify that a particular parameter should be matched to all the remaining parts of a route. For example:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- get 'photos/*other', to: 'photos#unknown'
741
- ```
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-
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- This route would match `photos/12` or `/photos/long/path/to/12`, setting `params[:other]` to `"12"` or `"long/path/to/12"`. The fragments prefixed with a star are called "wildcard segments".
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-
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- Wildcard segments can occur anywhere in a route. For example:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- get 'books/*section/:title', to: 'books#show'
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- ```
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-
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- would match `books/some/section/last-words-a-memoir` with `params[:section]` equals `'some/section'`, and `params[:title]` equals `'last-words-a-memoir'`.
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-
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- Technically, a route can have even more than one wildcard segment. The matcher assigns segments to parameters in an intuitive way. For example:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- get '*a/foo/*b', to: 'test#index'
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- ```
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-
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- would match `zoo/woo/foo/bar/baz` with `params[:a]` equals `'zoo/woo'`, and `params[:b]` equals `'bar/baz'`.
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-
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- NOTE: By requesting `'/foo/bar.json'`, your `params[:pages]` will be equal to `'foo/bar'` with the request format of JSON. If you want the old 3.0.x behavior back, you could supply `format: false` like this:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- get '*pages', to: 'pages#show', format: false
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- ```
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-
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- NOTE: If you want to make the format segment mandatory, so it cannot be omitted, you can supply `format: true` like this:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- get '*pages', to: 'pages#show', format: true
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- ```
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-
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- ### Redirection
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-
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- You can redirect any path to another path using the `redirect` helper in your router:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- get '/stories', to: redirect('/articles')
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- ```
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-
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- You can also reuse dynamic segments from the match in the path to redirect to:
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-
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- ```ruby
784
- get '/stories/:name', to: redirect('/articles/%{name}')
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- ```
786
-
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- You can also provide a block to redirect, which receives the symbolized path parameters and the request object:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- get '/stories/:name', to: redirect { |path_params, req| "/articles/#{path_params[:name].pluralize}" }
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- get '/stories', to: redirect { |path_params, req| "/articles/#{req.subdomain}" }
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- ```
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-
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- Please note that this redirection is a 301 "Moved Permanently" redirect. Keep in mind that some web browsers or proxy servers will cache this type of redirect, making the old page inaccessible.
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-
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- In all of these cases, if you don't provide the leading host (`http://www.example.com`), Rails will take those details from the current request.
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-
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- ### Routing to Rack Applications
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-
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- Instead of a String like `'articles#index'`, which corresponds to the `index` action in the `ArticlesController`, you can specify any [Rack application](rails_on_rack.html) as the endpoint for a matcher:
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-
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- ```ruby
803
- match '/application.js', to: Sprockets, via: :all
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- ```
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-
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- As long as `Sprockets` responds to `call` and returns a `[status, headers, body]`, the router won't know the difference between the Rack application and an action. This is an appropriate use of `via: :all`, as you will want to allow your Rack application to handle all verbs as it considers appropriate.
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-
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- NOTE: For the curious, `'articles#index'` actually expands out to `ArticlesController.action(:index)`, which returns a valid Rack application.
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-
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- If you specify a rack application as the endpoint for a matcher remember that the route will be unchanged in the receiving application. With the following route your rack application should expect the route to be '/admin':
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-
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- ```ruby
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- match '/admin', to: AdminApp, via: :all
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- ```
815
-
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- If you would prefer to have your rack application receive requests at the root path instead use mount:
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-
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- ```ruby
819
- mount AdminApp, at: '/admin'
820
- ```
821
-
822
- ### Using `root`
823
-
824
- You can specify what Rails should route `'/'` to with the `root` method:
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-
826
- ```ruby
827
- root to: 'pages#main'
828
- root 'pages#main' # shortcut for the above
829
- ```
830
-
831
- You should put the `root` route at the top of the file, because it is the most popular route and should be matched first.
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-
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- NOTE: The `root` route only routes `GET` requests to the action.
834
-
835
- You can also use root inside namespaces and scopes as well. For example:
836
-
837
- ```ruby
838
- namespace :admin do
839
- root to: "admin#index"
840
- end
841
-
842
- root to: "home#index"
843
- ```
844
-
845
- ### Unicode character routes
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-
847
- You can specify unicode character routes directly. For example:
848
-
849
- ```ruby
850
- get 'こんにちは', to: 'welcome#index'
851
- ```
852
-
853
- Customizing Resourceful Routes
854
- ------------------------------
855
-
856
- While the default routes and helpers generated by `resources :articles` will usually serve you well, you may want to customize them in some way. Rails allows you to customize virtually any generic part of the resourceful helpers.
857
-
858
- ### Specifying a Controller to Use
859
-
860
- The `:controller` option lets you explicitly specify a controller to use for the resource. For example:
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-
862
- ```ruby
863
- resources :photos, controller: 'images'
864
- ```
865
-
866
- will recognize incoming paths beginning with `/photos` but route to the `Images` controller:
867
-
868
- | HTTP Verb | Path | Controller#Action | Named Helper |
869
- | --------- | ---------------- | ----------------- | -------------------- |
870
- | GET | /photos | images#index | photos_path |
871
- | GET | /photos/new | images#new | new_photo_path |
872
- | POST | /photos | images#create | photos_path |
873
- | GET | /photos/:id | images#show | photo_path(:id) |
874
- | GET | /photos/:id/edit | images#edit | edit_photo_path(:id) |
875
- | PATCH/PUT | /photos/:id | images#update | photo_path(:id) |
876
- | DELETE | /photos/:id | images#destroy | photo_path(:id) |
877
-
878
- NOTE: Use `photos_path`, `new_photo_path`, etc. to generate paths for this resource.
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-
880
- For namespaced controllers you can use the directory notation. For example:
881
-
882
- ```ruby
883
- resources :user_permissions, controller: 'admin/user_permissions'
884
- ```
885
-
886
- This will route to the `Admin::UserPermissions` controller.
887
-
888
- NOTE: Only the directory notation is supported. Specifying the
889
- controller with Ruby constant notation (eg. `controller: 'Admin::UserPermissions'`)
890
- can lead to routing problems and results in
891
- a warning.
892
-
893
- ### Specifying Constraints
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-
895
- You can use the `:constraints` option to specify a required format on the implicit `id`. For example:
896
-
897
- ```ruby
898
- resources :photos, constraints: { id: /[A-Z][A-Z][0-9]+/ }
899
- ```
900
-
901
- This declaration constrains the `:id` parameter to match the supplied regular expression. So, in this case, the router would no longer match `/photos/1` to this route. Instead, `/photos/RR27` would match.
902
-
903
- You can specify a single constraint to apply to a number of routes by using the block form:
904
-
905
- ```ruby
906
- constraints(id: /[A-Z][A-Z][0-9]+/) do
907
- resources :photos
908
- resources :accounts
909
- end
910
- ```
911
-
912
- NOTE: Of course, you can use the more advanced constraints available in non-resourceful routes in this context.
913
-
914
- TIP: By default the `:id` parameter doesn't accept dots - this is because the dot is used as a separator for formatted routes. If you need to use a dot within an `:id` add a constraint which overrides this - for example `id: /[^\/]+/` allows anything except a slash.
915
-
916
- ### Overriding the Named Helpers
917
-
918
- The `:as` option lets you override the normal naming for the named route helpers. For example:
919
-
920
- ```ruby
921
- resources :photos, as: 'images'
922
- ```
923
-
924
- will recognize incoming paths beginning with `/photos` and route the requests to `PhotosController`, but use the value of the :as option to name the helpers.
925
-
926
- | HTTP Verb | Path | Controller#Action | Named Helper |
927
- | --------- | ---------------- | ----------------- | -------------------- |
928
- | GET | /photos | photos#index | images_path |
929
- | GET | /photos/new | photos#new | new_image_path |
930
- | POST | /photos | photos#create | images_path |
931
- | GET | /photos/:id | photos#show | image_path(:id) |
932
- | GET | /photos/:id/edit | photos#edit | edit_image_path(:id) |
933
- | PATCH/PUT | /photos/:id | photos#update | image_path(:id) |
934
- | DELETE | /photos/:id | photos#destroy | image_path(:id) |
935
-
936
- ### Overriding the `new` and `edit` Segments
937
-
938
- The `:path_names` option lets you override the automatically-generated `new` and `edit` segments in paths:
939
-
940
- ```ruby
941
- resources :photos, path_names: { new: 'make', edit: 'change' }
942
- ```
943
-
944
- This would cause the routing to recognize paths such as:
945
-
946
- ```
947
- /photos/make
948
- /photos/1/change
949
- ```
950
-
951
- NOTE: The actual action names aren't changed by this option. The two paths shown would still route to the `new` and `edit` actions.
952
-
953
- TIP: If you find yourself wanting to change this option uniformly for all of your routes, you can use a scope.
954
-
955
- ```ruby
956
- scope path_names: { new: 'make' } do
957
- # rest of your routes
958
- end
959
- ```
960
-
961
- ### Prefixing the Named Route Helpers
962
-
963
- You can use the `:as` option to prefix the named route helpers that Rails generates for a route. Use this option to prevent name collisions between routes using a path scope. For example:
964
-
965
- ```ruby
966
- scope 'admin' do
967
- resources :photos, as: 'admin_photos'
968
- end
969
-
970
- resources :photos
971
- ```
972
-
973
- This will provide route helpers such as `admin_photos_path`, `new_admin_photo_path`, etc.
974
-
975
- To prefix a group of route helpers, use `:as` with `scope`:
976
-
977
- ```ruby
978
- scope 'admin', as: 'admin' do
979
- resources :photos, :accounts
980
- end
981
-
982
- resources :photos, :accounts
983
- ```
984
-
985
- This will generate routes such as `admin_photos_path` and `admin_accounts_path` which map to `/admin/photos` and `/admin/accounts` respectively.
986
-
987
- NOTE: The `namespace` scope will automatically add `:as` as well as `:module` and `:path` prefixes.
988
-
989
- You can prefix routes with a named parameter also:
990
-
991
- ```ruby
992
- scope ':username' do
993
- resources :articles
994
- end
995
- ```
996
-
997
- This will provide you with URLs such as `/bob/articles/1` and will allow you to reference the `username` part of the path as `params[:username]` in controllers, helpers and views.
998
-
999
- ### Restricting the Routes Created
1000
-
1001
- By default, Rails creates routes for the seven default actions (`index`, `show`, `new`, `create`, `edit`, `update`, and `destroy`) for every RESTful route in your application. You can use the `:only` and `:except` options to fine-tune this behavior. The `:only` option tells Rails to create only the specified routes:
1002
-
1003
- ```ruby
1004
- resources :photos, only: [:index, :show]
1005
- ```
1006
-
1007
- Now, a `GET` request to `/photos` would succeed, but a `POST` request to `/photos` (which would ordinarily be routed to the `create` action) will fail.
1008
-
1009
- The `:except` option specifies a route or list of routes that Rails should _not_ create:
1010
-
1011
- ```ruby
1012
- resources :photos, except: :destroy
1013
- ```
1014
-
1015
- In this case, Rails will create all of the normal routes except the route for `destroy` (a `DELETE` request to `/photos/:id`).
1016
-
1017
- TIP: If your application has many RESTful routes, using `:only` and `:except` to generate only the routes that you actually need can cut down on memory use and speed up the routing process.
1018
-
1019
- ### Translated Paths
1020
-
1021
- Using `scope`, we can alter path names generated by resources:
1022
-
1023
- ```ruby
1024
- scope(path_names: { new: 'neu', edit: 'bearbeiten' }) do
1025
- resources :categories, path: 'kategorien'
1026
- end
1027
- ```
1028
-
1029
- Rails now creates routes to the `CategoriesController`.
1030
-
1031
- | HTTP Verb | Path | Controller#Action | Named Helper |
1032
- | --------- | -------------------------- | ------------------ | ----------------------- |
1033
- | GET | /kategorien | categories#index | categories_path |
1034
- | GET | /kategorien/neu | categories#new | new_category_path |
1035
- | POST | /kategorien | categories#create | categories_path |
1036
- | GET | /kategorien/:id | categories#show | category_path(:id) |
1037
- | GET | /kategorien/:id/bearbeiten | categories#edit | edit_category_path(:id) |
1038
- | PATCH/PUT | /kategorien/:id | categories#update | category_path(:id) |
1039
- | DELETE | /kategorien/:id | categories#destroy | category_path(:id) |
1040
-
1041
- ### Overriding the Singular Form
1042
-
1043
- If you want to define the singular form of a resource, you should add additional rules to the `Inflector`:
1044
-
1045
- ```ruby
1046
- ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
1047
- inflect.irregular 'tooth', 'teeth'
1048
- end
1049
- ```
1050
-
1051
- ### Using `:as` in Nested Resources
1052
-
1053
- The `:as` option overrides the automatically-generated name for the resource in nested route helpers. For example:
1054
-
1055
- ```ruby
1056
- resources :magazines do
1057
- resources :ads, as: 'periodical_ads'
1058
- end
1059
- ```
1060
-
1061
- This will create routing helpers such as `magazine_periodical_ads_url` and `edit_magazine_periodical_ad_path`.
1062
-
1063
- ### Overriding Named Route Parameters
1064
-
1065
- The `:param` option overrides the default resource identifier `:id` (name of
1066
- the [dynamic segment](routing.html#dynamic-segments) used to generate the
1067
- routes). You can access that segment from your controller using
1068
- `params[<:param>]`.
1069
-
1070
- ```ruby
1071
- resources :videos, param: :identifier
1072
- ```
1073
-
1074
- ```
1075
- videos GET /videos(.:format) videos#index
1076
- POST /videos(.:format) videos#create
1077
- new_videos GET /videos/new(.:format) videos#new
1078
- edit_videos GET /videos/:identifier/edit(.:format) videos#edit
1079
- ```
1080
-
1081
- ```ruby
1082
- Video.find_by(identifier: params[:identifier])
1083
- ```
1084
-
1085
- Inspecting and Testing Routes
1086
- -----------------------------
1087
-
1088
- Rails offers facilities for inspecting and testing your routes.
1089
-
1090
- ### Listing Existing Routes
1091
-
1092
- To get a complete list of the available routes in your application, visit `http://localhost:3000/rails/info/routes` in your browser while your server is running in the **development** environment. You can also execute the `rake routes` command in your terminal to produce the same output.
1093
-
1094
- Both methods will list all of your routes, in the same order that they appear in `routes.rb`. For each route, you'll see:
1095
-
1096
- * The route name (if any)
1097
- * The HTTP verb used (if the route doesn't respond to all verbs)
1098
- * The URL pattern to match
1099
- * The routing parameters for the route
1100
-
1101
- For example, here's a small section of the `rake routes` output for a RESTful route:
1102
-
1103
- ```
1104
- users GET /users(.:format) users#index
1105
- POST /users(.:format) users#create
1106
- new_user GET /users/new(.:format) users#new
1107
- edit_user GET /users/:id/edit(.:format) users#edit
1108
- ```
1109
-
1110
- You may restrict the listing to the routes that map to a particular controller setting the `CONTROLLER` environment variable:
1111
-
1112
- ```bash
1113
- $ CONTROLLER=users bin/rake routes
1114
- ```
1115
-
1116
- TIP: You'll find that the output from `rake routes` is much more readable if you widen your terminal window until the output lines don't wrap.
1117
-
1118
- ### Testing Routes
1119
-
1120
- Routes should be included in your testing strategy (just like the rest of your application). Rails offers three [built-in assertions](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Assertions/RoutingAssertions.html) designed to make testing routes simpler:
1121
-
1122
- * `assert_generates`
1123
- * `assert_recognizes`
1124
- * `assert_routing`
1125
-
1126
- #### The `assert_generates` Assertion
1127
-
1128
- `assert_generates` asserts that a particular set of options generate a particular path and can be used with default routes or custom routes. For example:
1129
-
1130
- ```ruby
1131
- assert_generates '/photos/1', { controller: 'photos', action: 'show', id: '1' }
1132
- assert_generates '/about', controller: 'pages', action: 'about'
1133
- ```
1134
-
1135
- #### The `assert_recognizes` Assertion
1136
-
1137
- `assert_recognizes` is the inverse of `assert_generates`. It asserts that a given path is recognized and routes it to a particular spot in your application. For example:
1138
-
1139
- ```ruby
1140
- assert_recognizes({ controller: 'photos', action: 'show', id: '1' }, '/photos/1')
1141
- ```
1142
-
1143
- You can supply a `:method` argument to specify the HTTP verb:
1144
-
1145
- ```ruby
1146
- assert_recognizes({ controller: 'photos', action: 'create' }, { path: 'photos', method: :post })
1147
- ```
1148
-
1149
- #### The `assert_routing` Assertion
1150
-
1151
- The `assert_routing` assertion checks the route both ways: it tests that the path generates the options, and that the options generate the path. Thus, it combines the functions of `assert_generates` and `assert_recognizes`:
1152
-
1153
- ```ruby
1154
- assert_routing({ path: 'photos', method: :post }, { controller: 'photos', action: 'create' })
1155
- ```