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author | vijay <vijaydev.cse@gmail.com> | 2010-12-10 23:34:48 +0530 |
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committer | vijay <vijaydev.cse@gmail.com> | 2010-12-10 23:34:48 +0530 |
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fixed typos and rephrased few sentences in routing
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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile index 2f5c88b8c3..bc38e4a6e5 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ h2. Rails Routing from the Outside In This guide covers the user-facing features of Rails routing. By referring to this guide, you will be able to: * Understand the code in +routes.rb+ -* Construct your own routes, using either the preferred resourceful style or with the <tt>match</tt> method +* Construct your own routes, using either the preferred resourceful style or the <tt>match</tt> method * Identify what parameters to expect an action to receive * Automatically create paths and URLs using route helpers * Use advanced techniques such as constraints and Rack endpoints @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Resource routing allows you to quickly declare all of the common routes for a gi h4. Resources on the Web -Browsers request pages from Rails by making a request for a URL using a specific HTTP method, such as +GET+, +POST+, +PUT+ and +DELETE+. Each method is a request to perform an operation on the resource. A resource route maps a number of related request to the actions in a single controller. +Browsers request pages from Rails by making a request for a URL using a specific HTTP method, such as +GET+, +POST+, +PUT+ and +DELETE+. Each method is a request to perform an operation on the resource. A resource route maps a number of related requests to actions in a single controller. When your Rails application receives an incoming request for @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ This route would match paths such as +/photos/A12345+. You can more succinctly e match 'photos/:id' => 'photos#show', :id => /[A-Z]\d{5}/ </ruby> -+:constraints+ takes regular expression. However note that regexp anchors can't be used within constraints. For example following route will not work: ++:constraints+ takes regular expressions with the restriction that regexp anchors can't be used. For example, the following route will not work: <ruby> match '/:id' => 'posts#show', :constraints => {:id => /^\d/} @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ match 'photos/*other' => 'photos#unknown' This route would match +photos/12+ or +/photos/long/path/to/12+, setting +params[:other]+ to +"12"+ or +"long/path/to/12"+. -Wildcard segments do not need to be last in a route. For example +Wildcard segments can occur anywhere in a route. For example, <ruby> match 'books/*section/:title' => 'books#show' @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ match 'books/*section/:title' => 'books#show' would match +books/some/section/last-words-a-memoir+ with +params[:section]+ equals +"some/section"+, and +params[:title]+ equals +"last-words-a-memoir"+. -Techincally a route can have even more than one wildard segment indeed, the matcher assigns segments to parameters in an intuitive way. For instance +Technically a route can have even more than one wildcard segment. The matcher assigns segments to parameters in an intuitive way. For example, <ruby> match '*a/foo/*b' => 'test#index' @@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ constraints(:id => /[A-Z][A-Z][0-9]+/) do end </ruby> -NOTE: Of course, you can use the more advanced constraints available in non-resourceful routes in this context +NOTE: Of course, you can use the more advanced constraints available in non-resourceful routes in this context. h4. Overriding the Named Helpers @@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ The +:as+ option lets you override the normal naming for the named route helpers resources :photos, :as => "images" </ruby> -will recognize incoming paths beginning with +/photos+ and route the requests to +PhotosController+: +will recognize incoming paths beginning with +/photos+ and route the requests to +PhotosController+, but use the value of the :as option to name the helpers. |_.HTTP verb|_.Path |_.action |_.named helper | |GET |/photos |index | images_path | @@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ This would cause the routing to recognize paths such as NOTE: The actual action names aren't changed by this option. The two paths shown would still route to the +new+ and +edit+ actions. -TIP: If you find yourself wanting to change this option uniformly for all of your routes, you can use a scope: +TIP: If you find yourself wanting to change this option uniformly for all of your routes, you can use a scope. <ruby> scope :path_names => { :new => "make" } do @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ NOTE: The +namespace+ scope will automatically add +:as+ as well as +:module+ an h4. Restricting the Routes Created -By default, Rails creates routes for all seven of the default actions (index, show, new, create, edit, update, and destroy) for every RESTful route in your application. You can use the +:only+ and +:except+ options to fine-tune this behavior. The +:only+ option tells Rails to create only the specified routes: +By default, Rails creates routes for the seven default actions (index, show, new, create, edit, update, and destroy) for every RESTful route in your application. You can use the +:only+ and +:except+ options to fine-tune this behavior. The +:only+ option tells Rails to create only the specified routes: <ruby> resources :photos, :only => [:index, :show] @@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ Routes should be included in your testing strategy (just like the rest of your a h5. The +assert_generates+ Assertion -Use +assert_generates+ to assert that a particular set of options generate a particular path. You can use this with default routes or custom routes ++assert_generates+ asserts that a particular set of options generate a particular path and can be used with default routes or custom routes. <ruby> assert_generates "/photos/1", { :controller => "photos", :action => "show", :id => "1" } @@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ assert_generates "/about", :controller => "pages", :action => "about" h5. The +assert_recognizes+ Assertion -The +assert_recognizes+ assertion is the inverse of +assert_generates+. It asserts that Rails recognizes the given path and routes it to a particular spot in your application. ++assert_recognizes+ is the inverse of +assert_generates+. It asserts that a given path is recognized and routes it to a particular spot in your application. <ruby> assert_recognizes({ :controller => "photos", :action => "show", :id => "1" }, "/photos/1") |