Hi, i'm curently designing an app which requires lots (and lots) of named routes. I want it RESTful, but with paths not named after controller. Example of what I need: for controller User generate. user_path, user_url, formatted_user_path ... etc, but the paths would be specified by me. Like user_path #=> /our_customer/:id, where our_customer is the custom thing. At first I just did LOTS of named routes, but nicely formatted it took about 30 lines per controller and it didnt include formatted_paths. So I refactored it into function, which is about 35 lines long, and bit ugly. Here it comes.
8 def custom_resources mapper, options = {} 9 10 controller = options[:controller] 11 plural = options[:objects] || options[:object].pluralize 12 singular = options[:object] || plural.singularize 13 edit_string = options[:edit] || "edit" 14 new_string = options[:new] || "new" 15 controller_name = controller.split('/').last 16 17 mapper.send "#{controller_name.pluralize}_index", #GET index 18 plural, 19 :controller => controller, 20 :action => "index", 21 :conditions => {:method => :get} 22 23 mapper.send "#{controller_name.pluralize}", #POST create 24 plural, 25 :controller => controller, 26 :action => "create", 27 :conditions => {:method => :post} 28 29 mapper.send "new_#{controller_name}", #GET new 30 plural+"/#{new_string}", 31 :controller => controller, 32 :action => "new", 33 :conditions => {:method => :get} 34 35 mapper.send "#{controller_name}", #GET show 36 singular +"/:id", 37 :controller => controller, 38 :action => "show", 39 :conditions => {:method => :get} 40 41 mapper.send "edit_#{controller_name}", #GET edit 42 singular+"/:id/#{edit_string}", 43 :controller => controller, 44 :action => "edit", 45 :conditions => {:method => :get} 46 47 mapper.send "#{controller_name}", #PUT update 48 singular+"/:id", 49 :controller => controller, 50 :action => "update", 51 :conditions => {:method => :put} 52 53 mapper.send "#{controller_name}", #DELETE destroy 54 singular+"/:id", 55 :controller => controller, 56 :action => "destroy", 57 :conditions => {:method => :delete} 58 end 59 60 custom_resources map, :controller => "admin/room", :object => "place",:new => "create_new"
this will create basic restfull routes like new_room_path #=> /places/ create_new as you can see, it is ugly, but basicaly working. I dont want ugly code in my app. Any sugestions? Some routing method I am missing?
there’s nothing wrong with using what parts of REST you want or ditching the whole thing and using custom routes to chase the “pretty url” dragon if that’s what you wish but REST isn’t going to support all these little “pretty” routes very well. YMMV