A truly default route What would routes.rb look like if I want EVERYTHING to go to a controller action called, hmm, ‘everything’ in static_pages.rb?
Ralph Shnelvar
Here's the bottom of one of my routes.rb files:
# this has to be the last option in order to work with unprefixed routes get '/:slug', to: 'pages#show', constraints: lambda { |request| Page.pages.include? request.path_parameters[:slug] } get "*any", via: :all, to: "errors#not_found"
That's not exactly what you asked for, but it's fairly close.
Walter
Re: [Rails] A truly default route Walter, This is WAAAY above my head. Would you please give an explanation? Are both lines necessary? Ralph Thursday, February 22, 2018, 7:05:30 PM, you wrote: __WLD> Here’s the bottom of one of my routes.rb files:
Sure.
This is from a CMS where pages can be accessed by their "slug" parameter. So a link to www.example.com/some-unique-name will resolve to PagesController#show with the :slug parameter populated with the value 'some-uniqe-name'.
I also added the constraints bit (optional if you really just mean for all requests to be mapped to the one controller/action pair) so that only slugs that were real (as opposed to typos or whatever) would be routed to the PagesController. In the Page model, there is a method called pages:
def self.pages @pages = Page.pluck(:slug) end
That just gives me the complete list of possible real slugs, so I can ignore anything else. And in the PagesController, I have the set_page method to allow pages to be found by their slug or their id:
def set_page if params[:slug] @page = Page.find_by(slug: params[:slug]) else @page = Page.find(params[:id]) end end
That runs in a before_action callback, so my show method is empty.
The last line in the routes is a catch-all that sends a 404. It is only reached if none of the other routes matched, so it only fires when I get a request that I don't legitimately handle. I was getting a LOT of Wordpress "fuzzing" attacks on this server, and I didn't like them clogging my logs.
Walter
