While you’ve always been able to manually take a peek at what routes are defined in your application, this dollop of usefulness has now found its way into a rake task.
Just run
rake routes |
and voila, all routes defined will be spit out in a tidy columnar form with the following columns:
route name, HTTP method, route path, route requirements
As an example, here is what my output looks like:
1 2 |
all_articles GET /articles;all/ {:action=>"all", :controller=>"articles"}
search_articles GET /articles;search/ {:action=>"search", :controller=>"articles"} |
curl http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk/railties/lib/tasks/routes.rake > lib/tasks/routes.rake |
This is particularly useful in RESTful implementations as there’s lot of routing magic happening for you under the covers. Now you have the means to take a harmless peek under said covers.
tags: ruby, rubyonrails, rake
