Building a Root Route with a Generator

Rails
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I’m looking for a better approach… then what I’m currently doing.

I’m working on a generator that will help me setup my base projects
with many of my common defaults that I use internally. Now I know that
generators have the route_resources method that allows a person to
create a resource in the routes file, but is there a way to create the
map.root :controller => ‘name’ entry as well?

Here is what I’ve done. I customized the route_resources method to be
something like this:

def add_root_route
  sentinel = 'ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|'
  gsub_file 'config/routes.rb', /(#{Regexp.escape(sentinel)})/mi

do |match|
“#{match}\n map.root :controller => “welcome”\n”
end
end

And then just copied the gsub_file method to my generator (it was a
protected method and I couldn’t think of another way to execute it -
thoughts?).

I then have a bit that does:

  action = File.basename($0)
  case action
    when "generate"
      add_root_route
    when "destroy"
      puts

“------------------------------------------------------------”
puts “Make sure you remove the map.root from the /config/
routes.rb”
puts
“------------------------------------------------------------”
end

Which makes sure it only runs when they are running generate.

My question is this… Is there an better way to be doing this? It
seems like a lot of insanity just to add a root route.

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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Tim K. [email protected] wrote:

My question is this… Is there an better way to be doing this? It
seems like a lot of insanity just to add a root route.

You would think so, but there doesn’t seem to be. script/generate resource also adds routes, but looking at the source, they’re doing
something similar:

    def route_resources(*resources)
      resource_list = resources.map { |r| r.to_sym.inspect }.join(',

')
sentinel = ‘ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|’

      logger.route "map.resources #{resource_list}"
      unless options[:pretend]
        gsub_file 'config/routes.rb',

/(#{Regexp.escape(sentinel)})/mi do |match|
“#{match}\n map.resources #{resource_list}\n”
end
end
end

Brandon

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Okay cool. Is there a better way to call gsub_file protected method
then by copying it into the generator? It’s in
Rails::Generator::Commands::Base.