Question

I’m following a tutorial (the learning rails podcast) and need to change the following route syntax so that it’s compatible with Rails 3.0. can anyone help?

map.view_page ':name', :controller => 'viewer', :action => 'show'

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

When you generate a new Rails 3 app, the boilerplate routes.rb has some decent examples in it, including this one.

# Sample of named route:
#   match 'products/:id/purchase' => 'catalog#purchase', :as => :purchase
# This route can be invoked with purchase_url(:id => product.id)

Given what you have above, this would translate to the following.

match ':name' => 'viewer#show', :as => :view_page

If you check this with rake routes you’ll see this.

$ rake routes
view_page  /:name(.:format) {:controller=>"viewer", :action=>"show"}