"Ugly URLs" don't work with resources?

rubyonrails-talk
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Routes match top to bottom. By putting map.resources above the generic resource route, it matches /courses/edit as /courses/:id. Try this:

map.connect ':controller/:action/:id', :action => /[a-z]+/, :id => nil # matches /foo/list or /foo/show/1 map.resources ... ....

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Hey,

Personally, and assuming this is an isolated case for you, I'd avoid
tinkering with routes like Rick suggests.

In your routes.rb:

map.resources :courses, :collection => {:edit_for => :get}

In courses_controller.rb:

def edit_for    # personally, I'd just do redirect_to(edit_course_path(params[:id]))    # but if the extra round-trip offends you...    edit    render :action => :edit end

And finally your url helper looks like this:

edit_for_courses_path(:id => 23) #=> /courses;edit_for?id=23

which is recognized by rails routing, even if you remove the default
routes from routes.rb

HTH, Trevor

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Heh. Isn’t

map.resources :courses, :collection => {:edit_for => :get}

still tinkering with routes? :wink:

RSL

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Hey again,

as I said, "assuming this is an isolated case for you", as in, if you
just wanted the behavior for a particular controller and action then
I'd deal with that specific issue rather than change route
recognition order. The fact that you had to add '_' to the pattern
indicates that you had more than just the 'edit' action in mind so
it's probably not an isolated case.

There's nothing that's specifically going to get you into trouble
later, there are plenty of pre1.2 rails apps out there that use the
default route just fine.

My personal experience has been that things are easier to control if
I don't mix resources style urls with the default route - so lately
I've been *deleting* the default route on my new projects and only
using resources and named routes.

However, if Rick's suggestion works for you and it doesn't have any
side effects that you don't like, then you're done :slight_smile:

Regards, Trevor

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My personal experience has been that things are easier to control if I don't mix resources style urls with the default route - so lately I've been *deleting* the default route on my new projects and only using resources and named routes.

I do this too to keep things consistent. However, sometimes I'm a stickler for routes and I have custom routes on top of my resource routes. It really depends on what I'm trying to do. If in doubt, set up some good routing tests using assert_routing.