Question

We have an app with a large number of non-RESTful, verb-oriented controllers. I remember that long ago, before Rails got the REST religion, you could get automatic routes and helpers for those. Is there any way to still do this? It’s a pain to keep adding GETs every time we add an action, and our app (or perhaps our collective development brain) just doesn’t lend itself to RESTfulness.

Answer 1

You can use the “magic route”, I believe it’s still in the routes file by default, but if you don’t have it here it is:

# This is a legacy wild controller route that's not recommended for RESTful applications.
# Note: This route will make all actions in every controller accessible via GET requests.
# match ':controller(/:action(/:id(.:format)))'