Hi All,
The thing which I often use on my CLI is rails routes
I either use grep to filter out a specific route I want or I use controller level filtering using rails routes -c InboundEmails But I and some of my friends struggled to see output clearly, as there are just too many columns, long routes, and such a small screen. (I am talking about a regular laptop) The regular output looks like: Prefix | Verb | URI | Controller#Action And there is no direct option for column level filtering, So either some of us reduce fonts or use awk type things and using a shell script/shortcut to reduce the output. I would prefer having a clean approach wherein we can pass arguments to rails routes command something like bundle exec rails routes -c InboundEmails -f verb,path,reqs And the out will look like: Verb | URI | Controller#Action
It will easily filter out the columns If someone doesn’t need it, no need to use awk things anymore.
Also, it would be an optional use case so other people who are happy about the current approach don’t see a change and developer experience remains the same.
Let me know what you think. I can quickly put up a working code for the same.
Note:
- I am proposing this only for Command-Line.
- I need a better alias than -f, so all suggestions are welcome.
Thanks. Tushar