Question

I have a status controller for reporting how my application is functioning. It has two basic actions:

1. How do things look right now?
2. Poke all the pieces to update their status, and then process as #1.

The paths are status and status/ping respectively.

I want to restrict these to only GET for status and only POST for status/ping. The current route structure looks like this:

map.connect('status',      :controller => 'status', :action => 'index')
map.connect('status/ping', :controller => 'status', :action => 'ping')

I’ve tried various combinations of :via and :only with no success.

How can I impose verb restrictions on these paths?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The :only option is for the Restful routes. According to the 2.3.8 docs, what you’re looking for is the following.

map.connect('status', :controller => 'status', :action => 'index', :conditions => { :method => :get })
map.connect('status/ping', :controller => 'status', :action => 'ping', :conditions => { :method => :post })