Question

I’ve added Omniauth to my rails 3.1 project and it all works fine. When I visit hostname/auth/facebook I’m brought to a page where I can authorize access to my Facebook account as you would expect.

I’m wondering if I can name that route though so that in my link_to helpers I can write

<%= link_to 'Login with Facebook', facebook_login_path %>

instead of

<%= link_to 'Login with Facebook', '/auth/facebook' %>

Not a huge thing I know but I like the consistency.

Answer 1

Normally you would do something like this: In your routes.rb file:

get "auth/facebook", :to => "controller#action", :as => "facebook_login"

But in this case, the url that you are sent to isn’t actually a URL part of your application – but the oauth url for Facebook. Therefore, you can’t create a route for it.

The only thing you could do – like the commenter above pointed out – is to create a helper method in one of your helper files – like app/helpers/application_helper.rb

def facebook_login_path
  "/auth/facebook"
end