rails custom rest route with parameter - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have a questions controller and an associated model and a number of rest routes. Here is how it's set up in routes.rb:
resources :questions
I want to add a custom route that has the format /questions/widget/ID (where ID is the id of the question for which I want to generate a widget). I want this to be processed by the "widget" action in my questions controller. I've tried a number of things such as:
resources :questions do
member do
get 'widget/:id'
end
end
But nothing is working. I'm sure I'm missing something simple. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You do not have to specify the id since you are inside resources. It should look like:
resources :questions do
member do
get 'widget'
end
end
You can get more information from the Rails Guide. Look at section 2.9.1.
Edit: I just noticed that you are trying to match get /questions/widget/:id. This will set up a route for get /questions/:id/widget. This is more in line with Rails convention. If you really want it the other way, you need to set up a custom match statement:
match "/questions/widget/:id" => "questions#widget"
However, I would stick with convention.

Answer 2

I know it is old, but looking to fix another routing problem I ended here, it is possible, to do what you are asking for, here is an example
resources :articles do
get 'by_tag/:tag' => :by_tag, on: :collection
get 'by_author/:author' => :by_author, on: :collection
resources :comments, except: :show
end
now you have /artices/by_tag/:tag . The trick was to use on:collection.
Obviously don't forget to add the by_tag action and by_author.
class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
.....
def by_tag
...
end
end
Check this route works with
melardev#local~$ rails routes

Answer 3

Why don't you use this routes:
resources :questions do
resources :widgets
end
it will create path like questions/:question_id/widgets/new for you to create new widget for question with specific id of question.

Answer 4

This is what ended up working for me:
resources :post do
get "author/:author", to: "posts#author", on: :collection, as: "author"
end
Which outputs the following route:
author_posts GET /posts/author/:author(.:format) posts#author
Then in your controller, you need to create the author action:
class PostsController < ApplicationController
def author
#roles = Post.where(author: params[:author])
render :index # to reuse the index view
end
end
Then in your view:
<%= link_to post.author, author_posts_path(post.author), data: { turbo_frame: "_top" } %>