> yeah, i've read it half a dozen times
Read *what*? Please quote when replying so it's clear what you're
responding to.
I have read the rails routing guide a dozen times.
> - doesn't give me any insight on
> the argument list for the _path family of functions and apidock is
> less than helpful as well.
Are you talking about the routing guide?
Yes.
In any case, the arguments are whatever is defined in that particular
route. Run rake routes or look at your routes file to see what that
would be.
That doesn't make any sense. My output of rake routes does not show a
function name for put requests. What I've discovered
(through trial and error) is that when using a _path function the
arguments can either be in the form of
_path(:id => @station)
_path(@station)
_path(@station, :attribute_not_on_the_model => :value)
_path(@station, :station => { :this_attribute_is_on_model => :value})
where in the guide is that explained? if it's even in there it most
certainly is not clear unless you already have a very good grasp of
the subject. I don't believe that it's "typical" for someone reading
the guides (mostly beginners I'll assume) to want to pass params in
their links and send them off as put requests.
> searching through google led to some obscure blog that said i could
> do:
> link_to 'do something', station_path(@station, :station =>
> { :attribute => :value }), :method => :put
> but why does this work and why aren't the _path functions clearly
> documented?
Because they're generated from your routes, and so will be different for
each Rails app. This is pretty clearly explained in the routing guide,
as well as in the documentation for ActionController::Routing and
ActionController::Resources . Perhaps you should read those again.
ActionController::Resources is the only one of those that even hints
at the proper form for the _path functions and that's only in the very
first example which doesn't even say that it can be used for those
functions - it only says "this is what a so-and-so request looks
like". http://rails.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Resources.html
to quote the docs a little further down it says:
Named Route Helper
message message_url(id), hash_for_message_url(id),
message_path(id), hash_for_message_path(id)
that would lead me to believe that the only argument available to
those functions is id...
> maybe someone who knows could point me to where these functions are
> defined in the source tree (preferably in master)?
This is all I'm really interested in now. Simply for curiosities
sake... The rest I've figured out and is all moot.
The arguments are the
:parameters in the route.