I'd like to override a default path of an Spree/Rails extension.
The extension spree_contact_us defines default route in it's config/routes.rb this way:
Spree::Core::Engine.routes.draw do
resources :contacts,
:controller => 'contact_us/contacts',
:only => [:new, :create]
match 'contact-us' => 'contact_us/contacts#new', :as => :contact_us
end
In the routes table there is just one record for route named contact-us:
contact_us /contact-us(.:format) spree/contact_us/contacts#new
If I pass following override in main application's config/routes.rb to routes.prepend method
Spree::Core::Engine.routes.prepend do
match 'napiste-nam' => 'contact_us/contacts#new', :as => :contact_us
end
rake routes displays routes to a new named path twice, when passed to routes.append even three times:
contact_us /napiste-nam(.:format) spree/contact_us/contacts#new
contact_us /napiste-nam(.:format) spree/contact_us/contacts#new
Can anybody explain this behaviour ?
The problem here is that you will be creating an ambiguous named route :contact_us which when referenced by contact_us_path will return the path for the last entry in routes because you are redefining it.
The duplication does seem strange but I have not looked at how spree handles these things.
In order to avoid this you could rename the secondary route such as
Spree::Core::Engine.routes.append do
match 'napiste-nam' => 'contact_us/contacts#new', :as => :contact_us_czech
end
This should create 2 routes in which you could use contact_us_path and contact_us_czech_path which will both lead to the same place. then create a method to determine which to use.
Or just add the new route directly into the spree routing tables as (PROBABLY NOT VALID DUE TO CALL TO routes_reloader in Spree Core.
match 'napiste-nam' => 'contact_us/contacts#new', :as => :contact_us
match 'contact_us' => 'contact_us/contacts#new', :as => :contact_us
Just remember that this means that contact_us_path with always reference the second route.
Edit
It seems Spree builds the default routes and then reloads them after initializing as is stated in the code
# We need to reload the routes here due to how Spree sets them up.
# The different facets of Spree (backend, frontend, etc.) append/prepend
# routes to Core *after* Core has been loaded.
#
# So we wait until after initialization is complete to do one final reload.
# This then makes the appended/prepended routes available to the application.
config.after_initialize do
Rails.application.routes_reloader.reload!
end
I believe this is causing the named route :contact_us to be routed to it's defined route meaning that you defined it as contact_us and then redefined it as napiste-nam and since a variable can have only 1 value it held on to the second one on reload!. Due to this fact I am not sure you can do this directly through Spree.
Using
Spree::Core::Engine.routes.draw
instead of
Spree::Core::Engine.routes.prepend
solved the routes duplication problem for me.
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I am trying to reach the following url in my rails app:
example.com/user12 # It should show user#show
exmple.com/wordpress # It should show category#show
My solution: (it does not work)
In the routes.rb I have added :path => '' to both categories and users in order to remove the controllers' name from the url.
resources :categories, :path => ''
resources :users, :path => ''
When I run rake routes, I have the following urls"
category GET /:id(.:format) category#show
account GET /:id(.:format) accounts#show
So I assumed that It should be working correctly, but surely not. It only works for category names and for usernames it shows ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound.
I know, my solution is wrong because I am confusing rails route system and because the resources :categories has more priority over resources :users, the category show page works fine.
So Is there any solution to solve an issue like this?
I have finally found the solution with constraints option. This option accepts regular expressions.
resources :categories, :path => '', constraints: { id: /wordpress|php/ }
Every category should be added manually in this way OR (I am not sure) maybe there is a way to list all categories from database automatically.
One way of doing that is to override the default rails routes, to do that remove the resources
I tested and this works
SampleRails4::Application.routes.draw do
get '/user12', to: 'users#show' #=> users/show
get '/wordpress', to: 'category#show' #=> assuming u have a controller and action
end
however then you have to update the rest of your code, Ex: users/show might be expecting the user id as a param read more about rails routing
I am trying to update multi-select list on change but I am getting a routing error.
I call this with an onchange event $.post("/levels/category_lists_for_level"
I have an action called category_lists_for_level in a controller called level.
My routes file looks like this.
match '/levels/category_lists_for_level/:id' => 'levels#category_lists_for_level'
resources :levels
resources :levels , :collection => {:category_lists_for_level => :get}
What am I doing wrong here? I never had any problem in Rails 2, all I used to add the collection.
It is a bit hard to say exactly what you need since as others have said you are missing some info, but you have a few apparent things going on here:
You are duplicating routes
You have the route set on a collection and a member
You are allowing multiple requests types (get and post) to access this route.
If you would like to have this operate on a collection you just need:
resources :levels do
post "category_lists_for_level", :on => :collection
end
or on a member:
resources :level do
get "category_lists_for_level", :on => :member
end
This will reduce your routes. Just use rake routes | grep level to get the routes for this controller.
Take a look at this for some more info.
I have a controller in a Rails 3 app named "my_store." I would like to be able to use this controller as is, except replacing "my_store" in all the URL's with another name. I do not want to rename the controller file, and all the references to it. Is there a clean way to do this with just a routing statement?
If you use RESTful routes:
resources :another_name, :controller => "my_store"
Otherwise:
match "another_name" => "my_store"
If your routes are RESTful, this is pretty easy.
resources :photos, :controller => "images"
You can see how to do this and other helpful Rails routing information in the Rails routing guide.
Update, the other guys are correct, to replace all references you would change the resources name and corresponding controller in routes.rb! My answer is only good to set a specific route.
Yup, you would do this in your routes.rb using the :as option to specify
example:
match 'exit' => 'sessions#destroy', :as => :logout
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I have a rails route set up like:
match ':controller/:id/:action'
# match 'teams/:id' => "teams#show" # doesn't have any additional effect, which makes sense to me
resources :teams, :only => [:index, :show]
That way I can say /teams/cleveland-indians and it will call teams#show with :id => 'cleveland-indians'. Works great. My issue is that url_for doesn't quite do what I want. In my views/teams/index view, I get this behavior:
url_for(:id => "cleveland-indians") # => /teams/cleveland-indians/index
url_for(:id => "cleveland-indians", :action => :show) # => /teams/cleveland-indians/show
Of course that second one behaves the way I want, but I'd like to get rid of the unnecessary /show at the end. I don't know much about how these helpers work, but I'd have guessed it would know that show was the default action for a GET with a specified id, same as the routing engine does. Anyway, what's the best way for me to take care of this? Or am I just doing it all wrong?
'resources' line should already provide you with the routes you probably want so you can just remove first 'match' line.
Note that you can also use 'teams_path', 'team_path("cleveland-indians")' instead of 'url_for'.
Given a User resource, it goes like this
/user/:shortname
But how can the controller name be removed to get just
/:shortname
How can I declare this in routes.rb while keeping all CRUD functionality instant?
Updated: After reading this I'm moving to Sinatra over Rails to handle this API-like design better.
Define a custom match:
match ':shortname' => 'users#action'
Replace action in users#action with the name of the action that is supposed to receive the request. Just remember to place it in the appropriate order in your routes file. Rails looks at each line of your routes file starting at the top and selects the first matching route. ':shortname' would match any first-level path, including /users! So put it below any routes using a first-level path, which would include all of your resource routes. Here's an example:
resources :users
resources :posts
match '/blog' => 'posts#index'
match ':shortname' => 'users#action'
In routes, you should be able to do something like
resource :users, :path => '/:shortname'
Try that out and rake routes to see if that comes out as expected.