Rails 3 routes for page - ruby-on-rails-3

I have a page_controller with a few actions (dashboard, rules, contact). Each has a corresponding view. I don't know how to route it in Rails 3.
match 'page/:action' => 'page#:action'
The above doesn't work - what I would like is named routes like: page_path(:dashboard) or page_dashboard_path.
Any ideas?
Jacob

You will have to write
get 'page/dashboard'
get 'page/rules'
get 'page/contact'
That will generate the correct named routes.
Note: you can always type rake routes to see which named routes are created.
For more info: see documentation.

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Laravel Route apiResource (difference between apiResource and resource in route)

I'm using apiResource in Route which is using (index, create, show, update, destroy) methods in exampleController. When I would like to use show method the route wont work. what shall I do? I think it is because of {fruits} but I do not how solve it?
Route::apiResource('/fruit/{fruits}/apples', 'exampleController');
My route in browser is:
localhost:8000/api/fruits/testFruitSlug/apples/testAppleSlug
difference between apiResource and resource in route: Route::apiResource() only creates routes for index, store, show, update and destroy while Route::resource() also adds a create and edit route which don't make sense in an API context.
Already peoples added answers, I am just adding the route differences as visually :
Normal Resource controller
Route::resource('users', 'UsersController');
Gives you these named routes:
Verb Path Action Route Name
GET /users index users.index
GET /users/create create users.create
POST /users store users.store
GET /users/{user} show users.show
GET /users/{user}/edit edit users.edit
PUT|PATCH /users/{user} update users.update
DELETE /users/{user} destroy users.destroy
Api Resource controller
Route::apiResource('users', 'UsersController');
Gives you these named routes:
Verb Path Action Route Name
GET /users index users.index
POST /users store users.store
GET /users/{user} show users.show
PUT|PATCH /users/{user} update users.update
DELETE /users/{user} destroy users.destroy
To quickly generate an API resource controller that does not include the create or edit methods, use the --api switch when executing the make:controller command:
php artisan make:controller API/PhotoController --api
Try using the command line to generate your controller. It will save you stress. You can then do this in your route
Route::apiResource('photos', 'PhotoController');
I solved my question in below way:
public function show(Fruits $fruits, Apples $apples){
}
I found that I should give all variables in my function however I did not use all of them.

Matching same route / different HTTP verb to different controller method in Rails

I’ve got a Rails 3 app where instead of the default destruction mapping:
modelname DELETE /modelname/:id modelname#destroy
I would like a dedicated route with a GET ‘fallback’ so that users without Javascript are sent to a confirmation page:
delete_modelname DELETE /modelname/:id/delete modelname#destroy
delete_modelname GET /modelname/:id/delete modelname#confirm_destruction
I can get the above output in rake routes with the following declaration:
resources :modelname, except: [:destroy] do
member {
get 'delete', to: 'confirm_destruction'
delete 'destroy', as: 'delete'
}
end
However, one of the routes does not match, and it seems to be order-dependent, i.e. whichever is defined first then fails to match in testing. I notice that the default ‘overloaded’ routes Rails generates look a bit different in rake routes:
modelnames GET /modelname/:id/delete modelname#index
POST /modelname/:id/delete modelname#create
The route name is not repeated, and a link to create will become a link to index outside a form or a Javascript-enabled request.
It seems I’ve defined two entirely separate routes sharing the same name, rather than overloaded the path as I intended.
What am I missing? Is there any way to get the effect I’m looking for?
Things I’ve tried
Since it appeared to be the route name which was clashing, I tried this:
member {
get 'delete', to: 'confirm_destruction'
delete 'destroy', path: 'delete'
}
Changing as: to path: so that the route name would not be affected, but the paths would match. This works! The following routes are generated:
delete_modelname GET /modelname/:id/delete modelname#confirm_destruction
modelname DELETE /modelname/:id/delete modelname#destroy
This gives the effect I’m after, but unfortunately the modelname DELETE route masks the default modelname PUT route for updates.
Okay, so there is a way to do this, but it’s not quite as elegant as I’d hoped. I’m very open to a better answer if anyone has one.
resources :modelname, except: [:destroy] do
member {
get 'delete', to: 'confirm_destruction'
delete 'destroy', as: 'destroy', path: 'delete'
}
end
It works because these two new routes have unique names for using in views – delete_modelname_path and destroy_modelname_path – but if Javascript is disabled, the destroy_modelname path is still /modelnames/:id/delete, which comes in as a GET request and Rails matches it to the delete_modelname route (i.e. the confirmation page).

Generating routes with polymorphic_url in rails3

I've got some problems with generating routes with polymorphic_url
Here is a part of my route.rb file :
scope path: '/my-account', controller: 'customers/base', as: :customer do
...
resources :addresses, path: 'my-addresses'
...
end
rakes routes | grep addresses give me exactly the route i want :
customer_addresses GET /:locale/my-account/my-addresses(.:format)
Now, if i use
send('customer_addresses_path)
in a link_to, all work fine.
But if i'm not able to generate the same url with polymorphic url :
app.polymorphic_path([:customer,:addresses])
#ActionController::RoutingError: No route matches {:controller=>"addresses"}
app.polymorphic_path([Customer,:addresses])
#"/Customer/my-account/my-addresses" Not the same url :'(
app.polymorphic_path([Customer.first,:addresses])
#"/1/my-account/my-addresses" Not the same url :'(
Is there a way to use polymorphic_url to generate my url?
Asking a question is a good way to reflect on it.
Solution here:
app.polymorphic_path([:customer,:addresses], locale: :en)

laravel 4 pattern filter using a wildcard

I started using Laravel 3 last week, and then found the new 4 release and I'm trying to convert now.
I have a dozen+ routes that I want to deliver to a specific controller method. i.e., "/api/v1/owners/3/dogs/1 or /api/v1/owners/3" to run "myresourcecontroller#processRequest"
In Laravel 3 I was able to use this: (note * wildcard)
Route::any('api/v1/owners*', 'owners#processRequest'); // Process tags resource endpoints
I found this example from the documentation but it gives me an error. I get a NotFoundHttpException.
//[Pattern Based Filters](http://laravel.com/docs/routing#route-filters)
Route::filter('admin', function()
{
//
});
Route::when('admin/*', 'admin');
Not sure what I'm doing wrong? Is there another way to do this?
I don't want to use the Laravel 4 restful controllers, cause they don't seem to conform to complete restful design. i.e., no verbs in the url.
I have all of my processing written, I just need to be able to route to it.
I need to be able to create new records by POST /api/v1/owners or /api/v1/owners/3/dogs
I cannot use /api/v1/owners/create.
I'm trying to avoid having to write a route for every endpoint, i.e.,
Route::any('api/v1/owners/{owner_id}', 'owners#processRequest');
Route::any('api/v1/owners/{owner_id}/dogs/{dog_id}', 'owners#processRequest');
Thank you for any help
You should make use of resourceful controllers as they're a great asset when building an API. The endpoints you described can be achieved using resource controllers and nested resource controllers.
Route::resource('owners', 'OwnersController');
Route::resource('owners.dogs', 'OwnersDogsController');
Would allow you to create an owner with POST localhost/owners and create a dog on an owner with POST localhost/owners/3/dogs.
You can then wrap these routes in a route group to get the api/v1 prefix.
Route::group(['prefix' => 'api/v1'], function()
{
Route::resource('owners', 'OwnersController');
Route::resource('owners.dogs', 'OwnersDogsController');
});
Haven't used Laravel myself, but try any('api/v1/owners/*', (note slash before asterisk) as in the example.

tradeoff routes and views rails 3

here it's routes.db
resources :licenses do
resources :sublicenses do
resources :time_licenses
end
end
Then there is a client application that calls time_licenses_controller for creating new time_licenses, the controller responds with a json file, but i don't need to show any view.
Somewhere else instead i need to show to the client an index file including all time_licenses for every sublicense.
That's the path
license/:id/sublilicense/:id/time_lincenses
Now i have a problem with the routes. When i call the create on time_licenses_controller i get this error:
No route matches "/time_licenses.js"
that i can solve changing the routes.db file like this
resources :time_licenses
resources :licenses do
resources :sublicenses
end
but in that case i get the same error linking the index view.
What do you suggest me? Do i have to create two different controllers?
Since you are using nested resources, you will always need to specify license and sublicense while specifying the path to timelicense.
Your path helpers will be:
license_sublicense_timelicense_path(#license, #sublicense, #timelicense) and so on
You can get the path names for the timelicense by
rake routes
Refer rails guides - nested resources for any doubts.