In rails 4.2 I have a controller that I want to fill with non resourceful routes something like
class TwilioController < ApplicationController
def add_to_queue
end
def another_action
end
end
I then want to access theese actions like so
http://appdomain/twilio/add-to-queue
and
http://appdomain.com/twilio/another-action
I realise I could do this like so in the routes file
get 'twilio/add-to-queue', to: 'twilio#add_to_queue'
get 'twilio/another-action', to: 'twilio#another_action'
but is there a way of grouping all of them together so I don't have to explicitly add twilio at the beginning of each route.
Ok I have figured out a solution, it seems quite a succinct one.
scope path: 'twilio', as: 't' do
get 'add-to-queue', to: 'twilio#add_to_queue'
end
So i now have routes like:
t_add_to_queue GET /twilio/add-to-queue(.:format) twilio#add_to_queue
Here's my solution that works in Rails 3.2.
scope :path => :twilio, :controller => :twilio, :as => :twilio do
get :add_to_queue
get :another_action
get :yet_another_action
end
:path adds \twillio\... to the URL
:controller maps all the nested routes to TwillioController
:as appends the URL helpers with twillio_....
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Hi guys I am new to rails. Sorry if I can't define this question properly.
What I wanted is for:
domain.com/posts/1-sample-post
to be routed like this:
domain.com/1-sample-post
How do I achieve this in rails routes? I've tried searching for this for almost 3 hours. This is very easy in PHP frameworks. I thought this is easy in Rails too.
I forgot to mention I have High_voltage gem installed in my app for my static pages.
Did this:
#routes.rb
resources :posts
get '/:id' => 'posts#show'
Now my High_voltage pages could not be rendered.
Update Solution:
So here is what we did in the routes:
Rails.application.routes.draw do
resources :authors
constraints(lambda { |req| Author.exists?(slug: req.params["id"]) }) do
get '/:id' => 'authors#show'
end
devise_for :users
resources :posts
constraints(lambda { |req| Post.exists?(slug: req.params["id"]) }) do
get '/:id' => 'posts#show'
end
end
Note that it is important to only use an exists? query here as it is very fast than other methods, so it won't eat that much loading time to render a record.
Special thanks to the guys below who helped a lot. Nathanvda, rwold, and Tai.
So the other answer correctly suggested something like
get '/:id', to: 'posts#show'
But this is a catch-all route and if there are no other routes defined this will catch all routes, also your HighVoltage, if it is configured to serve pages on root. You now have two catch-alls: one to find a static page and one to find a post.
Best solution in this case, imho is to make the static pages explicit (since I am assuming there will not be that many?)
get '/about' => 'high_voltage/pages#show', id: 'about'
get '/:id' => 'posts#show'
If you have a lot of pages, it seems easiest to just present the high-voltage on a different route? E.g. something like
get '/pages/:id' => 'high_voltage/pages#show'
get '/:id' => 'posts#show'
In both of these cases, since we use explicit routing, you would have to disable the default routing in the high-voltage initializer:
# config/initializers/high_voltage.rb
HighVoltage.configure do |config|
config.routes = false
end
[UPDATE: add special controller to consider both posts and pages]
Add a HomeController like this:
class HomeController < ApplicationController
# include the HighVoltage behaviour --which we will partly overwrite
include HighVoltage::StaticPage
def show
# try to find a post first
#post = Post.where(id: params[:id).first
if #post.present?
render 'posts/show'
else
# just do the high-voltage thing
render(
template: current_page,
locals: { current_page: current_page },
)
end
end
end
Of course I did not test this code, but I think this should get you started. Instead of doing the rendering of the post, you could also redirect to the posts-controller which is maybe easier (and you will use the PostsController fully) but adds a redirect and will change the url.
In your routing you will then have to write
get '/:id', 'home#show'
In your routes.rb file:
get '/:id-sample-post', to: 'posts#show', as: :sample_post
assuming that posts is your controller and show is the action that calls the view for your article with the given id.
EDIT AFTER OP COMMENT:
The as: :sample_post clause should create a helper sample_post_path that can be invoked as <%= link_to "Show", sample_post %>.
I have a simple problem where in a routes/url name is determined by a user role. Currently the route displayed is /new_admin/dispensaries. If the user has a role of either manager or executive then the named route should be '/dashboards/dispensaries'.
It's kind of simple but the hard part is that in my routes.rb:
namespace :new_admin do
resources :vendor_templates
resources :markdown_docs
resources :email_lists
namespace :moderation do
resources :reported_reviews
end
resources :users do
member do
get :user_bans
post :ban_unban, to: 'user_bans#create'
delete :ban_unban, to: 'user_bans#destroy'
end
end
# TODO - this should be written generically to support dispensary/doctors/whatever
get '/dispensaries/reviews', :to => "reviews#all", :as => :all_reviews
get '/dispensaries/pictures', :to => "pictures#all", :as => :all_pictures
get '/dispensaries/videos', :to => "videos#all", :as => :all_videos
get "/dispensaries/autocomplete", to: "dispensaries#autocomplete"
resources :vendors do
resources :ownership_transfers, only: [:new, :create]
end
...
I'm kind of stuck since if I change the new_admin routes, so many other routes will be affected. Any idea guys?
We've actually done something like this. It's not pretty, but this solution worked for us:
Slugs
You're basically alluding to a type of your routes called Slugs. This is where you use a name instead of an ID, allowing you to make a user-friendly route (such as /delivery/today). The problem is that in order to create these routes, you have to define them individually in the routes file
There are two Gems you can use to handle your slugged routes -- FriendlyID & Slugalicious. Both of these allow you to create slugged routes, but FriendlyID basically just changes the ID, whilst Slugalicious is a totally independent system
We used Slugalicious for the code below, however, you'll probably want FriendlyID (there's a RailsCast for it here):
Routing
The problem you have is that routes are outside the scope of the RESTful controller interface, which means you'll have to call all the routes exclusive of your resources references in the routes.rb file
If you use Slugalicious, it has its own Slugs database, which means we can use it to create the routes on the fly, like this:
#Slugs
begin
Slug.all.each do |s|
begin
get "#{s.slug}" => "#{s.sluggable_type.downcase.pluralize}#show", :id => s.slug
rescue
end
end
rescue
end
This is live code, and outputs all the slugs in the routes file dynamically. The way we managed to get this to update programmatically was to use an Observer Class like this:
class SlugObserver < ActiveRecord::Observer
def after_save(slug)
Rails.application.reload_routes!
end
def after_destroy(slug)
Rails.application.reload_routes!
end
end
I appreciate you may have your answer already, but as you're a beginner, I felt I could help out by explaining the slug stuff for you
I'm building a web app with Ruby on Rails and I want a route to be user-editable. So I though of adding a simple initializer to add the route the user specified, but I don't really know how can I do this. Is there some easy way of doing it? I tried this on application.rb:
config.after_initialize do
Rails.application.reload_routes!
Rails.logger.info "#{Rails.application.routes.routes.map(&:path)}"
MyApp::Application.routes.draw do
get '/droplet' => 'admin#index'
end
end
But that doesn't seems to work. This is what I have in my routes.rb:
MyApp::Application.routes.draw do
devise_for :users
root :to => 'target_finder#show_page'
match '*path' => 'target_finder#show_page'
end
Thanks in advance!
How about making a controller action that takes in the params, tests to see if they match the configured route, and take action from there.
MyApp::Application.routes.draw do
devise_for :users
root :to => 'target_finder#show_page'
match '*path' => 'test_if_custom#CustomController'
end
class CustomController < ActionController::Base
def test_if_custom
if url_for(params) == Rails.application.routes.routes.map(&:path)
take_custom_action
else
take_default_action # Redirects or errors, maybe.
end
end
end
I suggest having a look at the friendly_id gem, which can define custom routes from any attribute of the user, so you could have a :url user attribute and then use that for the route by adding a slug index and then putting extend FriendlyId and friendly_id :url, use: :slugged in the user model.
I have a resource called Book, then I have domains like:
domain.com/books/272
But I want to change it to
domain.com/stories/272
Only for the URL, don't need to change controller, classes etc.
In the routes I have
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'
map.root :controller => 'static'
How can I do it? Thanks
In rails 3, I believe you would do the following:
resources :books, :path => 'stories'
Depends really on what you have already.
Use this code to your routes file: (in the case of the original URL of books replaced by stories)
#resource routes
map.resources :books, :as => :stories
#named routes
map.books 'stories/:id'
Without defining routes the only option I can think of - which seems terribly wrong - is to add a new controller which inherits from your books controller. You'd need to go through your application and change the controller name used to generate paths or URLs as seen in the following example:
class BooksController < ApplicationController
class StoriesController < BooksController
Personally, I would recommend you take the time to define your routes but I guess this depends on how large an application you're working with.
This guide will help you understand routing in RoR: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html
Its called named routes and is done in your config/routes.rb
In your routes file:
map.stories 'stories/:id', :controller => 'books', :action => 'show'
Then in your view you can access this route with:
<%= link_to book.name, stories_path(book) %>
Make sure you change book.name to whatever name you want. also make sure you passing book as a local variable to the routes path.
You can also change the :id to be more SEO friendly with to_param in the respective model.
In your model:
def to_param
"#{id}-#{name.gsub(/\s/, '_').gsub(/[^\w-]/, '').downcase}"
end
Also make sure you replace name with an attribute that the book model actually has.
I want to copy the twitter profile page and have a url with a username "http://www.my-app.com/username" and while I can manually type this into the address bar and navigate to the profile page I can't link to the custom URL.
I think the problem is in the routes - here's the code in my routes.rb
map.connect '/:username', :controller => 'users', :action => 'show'
Also, I have Question and Answer models and I want to link to them with the customized URL like so:
http://www.my-app.com/username/question/answer/2210
There's nothing wrong with your route. Just remember to define it at the end, after defining all other routes. I would also recommend using RESTful routes and only if you want to have better looking URLs use named routes. Don't use map.connect. Here's some good reading about Rails routes.
Here's how this could look:
map.resources :questions, :path_prefix => '/:username' do |question|
question.resources :answers
end
map.resources :users
map.user '/:username', :controller => 'users', :action => 'show'
Just a draft you can extend.
To create urls you need to define to_param method for your user model (read here).
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
def to_param
username
end
end
I know this questions is old but it will help someone.
You could try the below. I've used it in a rails 4 project and all seems to be working great. The reason for the as: :admin is I also had a resources posts outside of this scope. It will add a admin to the helper calls e.g. admin_posts_path
scope ":username", module: 'admin', as: :admin do
get '', to: 'profiles#show'
resources :posts
end
I have used like this
In View part
portfolio.user.name,:id =>portfolio) %>
and in rout.rb
map.show_portfolio "portfolios/:username", :action => 'show_portfolio', :controller => 'portfolios'