Posted by
yorzi
on
August 19, 2011
By default, Rails generates seven RESTful routes(new,edit,create,destroy,index,show, update) for a resource, sometime the resource only needs one or two routes, so just user :only or :except while defining routes to speedup the routing.
For instance, you've got a comments_controller, and your application only needs its "create" and "destroy" actions. How will you define your routes?
Normally, people will do:
resources :comments
This will generate seven routes for you by Rails' default. Such as:
comments GET /comments(.:format)
POST /comments(.:format)
new_comment GET /comments/new(.:format)
edit_comment GET /comments/:id/edit(.:format)
comment GET /comments/:id(.:format)
PUT /comments/:id(.:format)
DELETE /comments/:id(.:format)
Refactor:
resources :comments, :only => [:create, :destroy]
New generated routes are only two:
POST /comments(.:format)
DELETE /comments/:id(.:format)
Comparing to :only, the :except option also works well to EXCEPT the included routes.
If your application defines many reoutes, the above restricting on routes will delete many useless routes, that means cutting down on memory use for you and speeding up the routing process.
Simple but a good habit! Enjoy it.
Comments
Thanks for the information.
6 # Country
7 resources :countries,
8 :except => [:show]
./config/routes.rb:7 - restrict auto-generated routes (:only => [:new, :create, :edit, :update, :destroy])
When using something like the decent_exposure gem or simply omitting the controller method in favor of only having the view to worry about.