Question

I have a Reports controller and various reports:

http://localhost/reports/main/this_month
http://localhost/reports/main/last_month
http://localhost/reports/main/this_year

I wanted http://localhost to default to http://localhost/reports/main/this_month. That is easy enough using map.root in my routes.rb.

However when I do this any links to http://localhost/reports/main/this_month are now shortened to just http://localhost. I want the links to stay full

Answer 1

I think it is very possible in Rails 2. The url string that is generated depends on which url helper you call in your view.

map.reports '/reports/:action/:timeframe', :controller => :reports
# todo pretty this up with some more named routes for reports
map.root :controller => "reports", :action => "main", :timeframe => "this_month"

Now, root_url will be http://locahost/. When you use reports_url(:action => 'main', :timeframe => 'this_month'), it will be http://localhost/reports/main/this_month. They both render the same action.

It sounds like you have set up the root, but just don’t create any links with root_url.