Question

I’m tring to setup a Route like so:

GET /settings/
PUT /settings/
GET /settings/photos
PUT /settings/photos

This is the routing code that I have setup for it:

#I just do this for code reuse
get = { :method => :get }
put = { :method => :put }

pub.settings '/settings', :controller => :settings, :action => :index, :conditions => get
pub.with_options :controller => :settings, :path_prefix => "/settings", :name_prefix => "settings_" do |settings|
  settings.update '', :action => :update, :conditions => put
  settings.photos '/photos', :action => :photos, :conditions => get
  settings.photos_update '/photos', :action => :photos_update, :conditions => :put
end

This works, but if you notice that the first route “pub.settings” is outside of the mapped_options block.

If I were todo

pub.with_options :controller => :settings, :path_prefix => "/settings", :name_prefix => "settings_" do |settings|
  settings.root '', :action => :index, :conditions => get
  settings.update '', :action => :update, :conditions => put
  settings.photos '/photos', :action => :photos, :conditions => get
  settings.photos_update '/photos', :action => :photos_update, :conditions => :put
end

Then I would get (in rake routes) the path to settings would be “settings_root_path” and not “settings_path”

Does anyone know how to include it into the block and still have the routing function name as “settings_path” ?

Answer 1

Rails has a :path_prefix, :path_names, and :name_prefix that help control how the helpers are generated. The rails routing guide has a few examples that might help.

:path_names controls the names being used in restful routes
:path_prefix sets the path used when generating helpers.
:name_prefix sets the prefix to the name of the generated helpers. This prefix may be set to nil or the empty_string.

For your case, I’d try (though untested):

settings.root '', :action => :index, :name_prefix => nil, :conditions => get