routes.rb don’t require restart

01Feb08

Just noticed that changes to routes.rb doesn’t require Rails application restart anymore (I’m on Rails 2.0.1). Cool stuff!

So now we can introduce another named route like this:


map.cloud 'projects/cloud', :controller => 'projects', :action => 'cloud'

and then immediately use cloud_url in templates.

Why I wanted to use named route for such a simple case? Actually not because it gives nice ‘cloud_url’ shortcut. I currently use it in a single place so it dosn’t matter to me. The reason is that my ‘projects’ controller is REST-friendly, i.e. I have ‘map.resources :projects’ in routes.rb. So, I have to add some line to routes.rb to use /projects/cloud – otherwise Rails thinks ‘cloud’ is an Id of project I’m trying to open. So I have 2 options, named route and map.connect, and now the choise is obvious.


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  1. 1 Dzso on September 8, 2008 said:

    What about

    map.resources :projects do |project|
    project.resources :cloud
    end

    This stuff or something like that?

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  2. 2 thirstydoh on October 3, 2008 said:

    Yeah, great option, thanks Dzso!

    Reply

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