You may wish to organize groups of controllers under a namespace. Most commonly, you might group a number of administrative controllers under an admin
namespace. You would place these controllers under the app/controllers/admin
directory, and you can group them together in your router:
namespace "admin" do
resources :posts, :comments
end
This will create a number of routes for each of the posts and comments controller. For Admin::PostsController
, Rails
will create:
GET /admin/posts
GET /admin/posts/new
POST /admin/posts
GET /admin/posts/1
GET /admin/posts/1/edit
PATCH/PUT /admin/posts/1
DELETE /admin/posts/1
If you want to route /posts (without the prefix /admin) to Admin::PostsController
, you could use
scope module: "admin" do
resources :posts
end
or, for a single case
resources :posts, module: "admin"
If you want to route /admin/posts to PostsController
(without the Admin::
module prefix), you could use
scope "/admin" do
resources :posts
end
or, for a single case
resources :posts, path: "/admin/posts"
In each of these cases, the named routes remain the same as if you did not use scope. In the last case, the following paths map to PostsController
:
GET /admin/posts
GET /admin/posts/new
POST /admin/posts
GET /admin/posts/1
GET /admin/posts/1/edit
PATCH/PUT /admin/posts/1
DELETE /admin/posts/1
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Instance Public methods
constraints(constraints = {}, &block) Link
Parameter Restriction
Allows you to constrain the nested routes based on a set of rules. For instance, in order to change the routes to allow for a dot character in the id
parameter:
constraints(id: /\d+\.\d+/) do
resources :posts
end
Now routes such as /posts/1
will no longer be valid, but /posts/1.1
will be. The id
parameter must match the constraint passed in for this example.
You may use this to also restrict other parameters:
resources :posts do
constraints(post_id: /\d+\.\d+/) do
resources :comments
end
end
Restricting based on IP
Routes can also be constrained to an IP or a certain range of IP addresses:
constraints(ip: /192\.168\.\d+\.\d+/) do
resources :posts
end
Any user connecting from the 192.168.* range will be able to see this resource, where as any user connecting outside of this range will be told there is no such route.
Dynamic request matching
Requests to routes can be constrained based on specific criteria:
constraints(-> (req) { /iPhone/.match?(req.env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]) }) do
resources :iphones
end
You are able to move this logic out into a class if it is too complex for routes. This class must have a matches?
method defined on it which either returns true
if the user should be given access to that route, or false
if the user should not.
class Iphone
def self.matches?(request)
/iPhone/.match?(request.env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])
end
end
An expected place for this code would be lib/constraints
.
This class is then used like this:
constraints(Iphone) do
resources :iphones
end
controller(controller) Link
Scopes routes to a specific controller
controller "food" do
match "bacon", action: :bacon, via: :get
end
defaults(defaults = {}) Link
Allows you to set default parameters for a route, such as this:
defaults id: 'home' do
match 'scoped_pages/(:id)', to: 'pages#show'
end
Using this, the :id
parameter here will default to ‘home’.
namespace(path, options = {}, &block) Link
Scopes routes to a specific namespace. For example:
namespace :admin do
resources :posts
end
This generates the following routes:
admin_posts GET /admin/posts(.:format) admin/posts#index
admin_posts POST /admin/posts(.:format) admin/posts#create
new_admin_post GET /admin/posts/new(.:format) admin/posts#new
edit_admin_post GET /admin/posts/:id/edit(.:format) admin/posts#edit
admin_post GET /admin/posts/:id(.:format) admin/posts#show
admin_post PATCH/PUT /admin/posts/:id(.:format) admin/posts#update
admin_post DELETE /admin/posts/:id(.:format) admin/posts#destroy
Options
The :path
, :as
, :module
, :shallow_path
, and :shallow_prefix
options all default to the name of the namespace.
For options, see Base#match
. For :shallow_path
option, see Resources#resources
.
# accessible through /sekret/posts rather than /admin/posts
namespace :admin, path: "sekret" do
resources :posts
end
# maps to +Sekret::PostsController+ rather than +Admin::PostsController+
namespace :admin, module: "sekret" do
resources :posts
end
# generates +sekret_posts_path+ rather than +admin_posts_path+
namespace :admin, as: "sekret" do
resources :posts
end
# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb, line 973 def namespace(path, options = {}, &block) path = path.to_s defaults = { module: path, as: options.fetch(:as, path), shallow_path: options.fetch(:path, path), shallow_prefix: options.fetch(:as, path) } path_scope(options.delete(:path) { path }) do scope(defaults.merge!(options), &block) end end
scope(*args) Link
Scopes a set of routes to the given default options.
Take the following route definition as an example:
scope path: ":account_id", as: "account" do
resources :projects
end
This generates helpers such as account_projects_path
, just like resources
does. The difference here being that the routes generated are like /:account_id/projects, rather than /accounts/:account_id/projects.
Options
Takes same options as Base#match
and Resources#resources
.
# route /posts (without the prefix /admin) to +Admin::PostsController+
scope module: "admin" do
resources :posts
end
# prefix the posts resource's requests with '/admin'
scope path: "/admin" do
resources :posts
end
# prefix the routing helper name: +sekret_posts_path+ instead of +posts_path+
scope as: "sekret" do
resources :posts
end
# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb, line 869 def scope(*args) options = args.extract_options!.dup scope = {} options[:path] = args.flatten.join("/") if args.any? options[:constraints] ||= {} unless nested_scope? options[:shallow_path] ||= options[:path] if options.key?(:path) options[:shallow_prefix] ||= options[:as] if options.key?(:as) end if options[:constraints].is_a?(Hash) defaults = options[:constraints].select do |k, v| URL_OPTIONS.include?(k) && (v.is_a?(String) || v.is_a?(Integer)) end options[:defaults] = defaults.merge(options[:defaults] || {}) else block, options[:constraints] = options[:constraints], {} end if options.key?(:only) || options.key?(:except) scope[:action_options] = { only: options.delete(:only), except: options.delete(:except) } end if options.key? :anchor raise ArgumentError, "anchor is ignored unless passed to `match`" end @scope.options.each do |option| if option == :blocks value = block elsif option == :options value = options else value = options.delete(option) { POISON } end unless POISON == value scope[option] = send("merge_#{option}_scope", @scope[option], value) end end @scope = @scope.new scope yield self ensure @scope = @scope.parent end