I'm a total noob to rails and I'm trying to understand a project I'm working on. I've found a method named cv_member_url in one of the views, but I can't for the life of me figure out where it is defined... One thing I do know about rails is that it is a very flexible language so it could be some sort of gem creating this method.
Any ideas where this method may have come from? (or better yet, how I can add others)
Thank you!
Do you have a model called CvMember? If so, the method is probably a named route for that model. See here for more info:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#paths-and-urls
To see all your named routes, you can run
rake routes
Those are named routes which are automatically defined based on what you have in routes.rb. *_url should be used in the controller, and *_path should be used in the views. Here's some more info from the official rails guide.
Assuming you can run this in development: You should put a breakpoint on it and step inside. Most likely it is dynamically defined or maybe in plugin.
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I'm looking for something in the rails console or similar where I can call get_controller_for_path('/some/path/') and it will return the corresponding controller.
Background
I have a rails project with a lot of routes. I'm investigating a routing problem and want to confirm that a given URL will match a specific route.
I can use bundle exec rake routes to view the list of routes, but that still requires my human eyes to parse the hundreds (thousands?) of routes and figure out what's going on.
Here you go: Rails parse url to hash(Routes)
That says it's Rails.application.routes.recognize_path "/accounts/1"
You can also use assert_routing in your tests. If you don't have tests, now is a very good time to add some. And you can read the source of assert_routing, and assert_recognizes, to see what they do.
I have a model called resource in my rails app and in need of modifying the return value of the helper *resource_path*, I've read some docs and SO Q/A and they're generally suggesting put the customized helper in *app/helpers/application_helper.rb*. The thing bothers me is that what do I do with the old auto generated helper? should I do something like
undef resource_path
before I go ahead and write my own helper? Currently I have a *resource_path* method defined within ApplicationHelper, interestingly when I open rails console, app.resource_path and helper.resource_path giving me different result.
Also, I'd like to hear a deeper explanation on how *_path* helpers implemented and how they are related to *link_to* helper, as the source code are kinda hard to read with so many meta programming techniques involved
Yes, you are able to do it like following:
resources :photos, as: 'images'
in your config/routes.rb file.
More details you can find here http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html especially 4.3 Overriding the Named Helpers
I want to override the default model file that's generated with rails generate model. I've created a template based on this file, but I can't figure out where to put it. Other answers seem to suggest /lib/templates/rails/model/model.rb or /lib/templates/rails/model/model_generator.rb, but neither of those do anything - I put the template in that location but when I run rails generate model ModelName it gets ignored.
Am I going about this the right way? Where should I put the template?
Solved: I wanted lib/templates/active_record/model/model.rb.
You probably need to put it in "lib/rails/generators/active_record/model/templates/model.rb". Here's the rails' default one: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/rails/generators/active_record/model/templates/model.rb
I'm new to rails and can't figure out this issue...
I have a controller
Admin::Blog::EntriesController
defined in app/controllers/admin/blog/entries_controller.rb
And I have a model called
Blog::Entry
defined in app/model/blog/entry.rb
When I try to access my model from the controller, I get a "uninitialized constant Admin::Blog::EntriesController::Blog" from this line:
#blog_entries = Blog::Entry.find(:all)
Clearly it is not finding the namespace correctly which is odd because according to what I have read, I have placed my model in the correct folder with the correct syntax.
Any ideas on how I can fix this?
Thanks
Try:
#blog_entries = ::Blog::Entry.find(:all)
It's currently looking for the wrong class. Using :: before Blog will force it to look from the top level.
It is now 2011 and we are in Rails 3.1 territory, but this issue still arises. I just ran into it with a namespaced controller referencing a non-namespaced model, but only when there were no rows for that model in the database!
Prefixing the model name with :: fixes the problem.
You can achieve a custom table name by using
set_table_name('foo')
at the top of your model.
As for multiple namespaces, you might be able to get away with using
polymorphic_path(#the_object)
to generate your urls as it does more basic inference (in my experience at least, maybe form_for uses it under the hood).
Yeah, from looking at the code form_for uses polymorphic_path under the hood.
I'm trying to work through this guide to Rails routing, but I got stuck in section 3.3:
Creating a RESTful route will also make available a pile of helpers within your application
and then they list some helpers like photos_url, photos_path, etc.
My questions:
Where can I find the complete list of helpers that is "made available?"
Is there a way to call the helpers in the console? I created an app, then opened up the console with script/console. I tried to call one of the helpers on the console like this:
>> entries_url
But got:
NameError: undefined local variable or method `entries_url' for #<Object:0x349a4>
from (irb):8
You have several questions in there, most of which have already been answered by people below.
The answer to one that wasn't fully addressed however, is: yes you can use the script/console to see where your routes go. Just type in app.[route_helper] and it will respond with the path. For example app.users_path will return /users/
So for your example type app.entries_url for the full URL - or app.entries_path for its relative path within the console.
rake routes at the command line should get you that list.
I think this may be what you are looking for ... http://topfunky.com/clients/peepcode/REST-cheatsheet.pdf
You can access other helpers in the console by prepending "helper."; ie. helper.progress_box (assuming #progress_box exists of course)
From memory, you can't call url/path helpers from the console for some reason.