Question

I have a controller in Ruby on Rails and I would like to do the following:

When a user is trying to access the controller I want to match some parameters. For example

domain.com/hello/19213/sayHello

I want to translate this to:

domain.com/hello/:id/:method

in my routes files.

Keep in mind that :method parameter might not exist but :id will always be there.

In addition if it is possible I would like to match the specific :method with a method in my controller. If not I plan to use a switch case.

Can someone provide an example for this and what I have to put in my routes.rb?

I found this:

match ':controller(/:action(/:id(.:format)))'

But I believe that this is somehow different as I only want to match router for the specific controller not every controller in my project.

Thanks

Answer 1

By method, I assume you mean a method you have in your model. If that is the case, I believe you want something like this in your routes.rb

match ':controller/:id(/:method)'

The parentheses around :method mean that it is optional.

If you do not include a method, it will evaluate your SHOW action with params[:id] = :id

If you do include a method, it will evaluate the :method with params[:id] = :id

This is for methods you have defined in your controller