map.resources with :only/:except (revisited)

rubyonrails-core
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Hi,

I've opened a LH ticket with a new implementation of :only/:except for map.resources, and an explanation of why this is an important feature for Rails:

  #1215 Add :only/:except options to map.resources - Ruby on Rails - rails

I realise that this feature has been rejected before (http:// dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/9460), but it's time for another shot. The shortest, most pragmatic justification is that large route files eat a remarkable amount of RAM (probably both Ruby objects and AST nodes), so even though Rails already gracefully handles useless routes, it's still a good idea to be able to prevent them from being generated in the first place. It's a shame to have to fall back to longhand named routes -- map.resources provides a nice way of structuring a readable routes.rb, so a bit of backwards-compatible flexibility seems like a good thing.

I can provide some real memory consumption numbers if they'd make a difference. I hope that the other issues described in the ticket (granularity and documentation) are convincing too.

Can anyone provide any feedback on the ticket? Is there any chance of this going in? It's pretty critical for memory performance on a couple of apps I'm working on.

Cheers, -Tom

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I can provide some real memory consumption numbers if they'd make a difference. I hope that the other issues described in the ticket (granularity and documentation) are convincing too.

Can anyone provide any feedback on the ticket? Is there any chance of this going in? It's pretty critical for memory performance on a couple of apps I'm working on.

As koz noted in the ticket, I'd love to see some memory stats on this. That seems to be the real issue here. I'd preferably like us to work on cutting down on the memory needed, but if we can't, then this could be a reasonable argument for the addition.