Question

if I do map.resources :users in routes.rb, the routes I get have (.:format) at the end of each route (rake routes).

How do I get rid of this in rails 2.3?

I’m pretty sure in 3.1.1 I can do something like :format=>false. Is this available in 2.3? Is there a monkey patch I can do to mimic :format=>false?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Monkey patched. Blah. I really, really wanted to change the default behavior, but took into consideration potential future developers’ sensitivities.

map.resource(s) ..., :format=>false now doesn’t include the format in the route

config/initializers/resources.rb:

module ActionController
  module Resources
    private
      def map_resource_routes(map, resource, action, route_path, route_name = nil, method = nil, resource_options = {} )
        if resource.has_action?(action)
          action_options = action_options_for(action, resource, method, resource_options)
          formatted_route_path = (resource.options[:format] == false ? route_path : "#{route_path}.:format")

          if route_name && @set.named_routes[route_name.to_sym].nil?
            map.named_route(route_name, formatted_route_path, action_options)
          else
            map.connect(formatted_route_path, action_options)
          end
        end
      end
  end
end

The change I made is here:

formatted_route_path = (resource.options[:format] == false ? route_path : "#{route_path}.:format")

It used to just be formatted_route_path = "#{route_path}.:format"

To get it to apply to all routes, in routes.rb, I just wrapped all routes with map.with_options :format=>false do |map| ... end