Console for Testing Routes?

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Hi,

when the “Agile Web D.” book talks about routes, there are what
looks like console transcripts like the following:

URL> store
@params = {:controller => ‘store’, :action = ‘index’}

Is there something like a console for testing routes (where you could
put in a url and see how rails would route it)??

Ingo

2

I’m pretty sure that dave just created that for demonstration purposes
but the latest rails as the app object in the console which you can
use for this:

./script/console

app.url_for :controller => ‘store’, :action => ‘index’
=> “http://www.example.com/store”
app.host! ‘www.snowdevil.ca’
=> “www.snowdevil.ca”
app.url_for :controller => ‘store’, :action => ‘index’
=> “http://www.snowdevil.ca/store”

On 4/4/06, Ingo W. [email protected] wrote:

Ingo

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Is there any way to do that sort of thing from a controller? Giving
some function a path and then getting the params that path would
produce?

For example, passing this to some function:

“/store/edit/1”

and getting back

[:controller => “store”, :action => “edit”, :id => “1”]

or whatever the appropriate params for the route are.

– Michael D.

4

ruby script/console
Loading development environment.
app.get >> app.get ‘/’
=> 200

app.controller.params
=> {“action”=>“index”, “controller”=>“shop”}

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when the “Agile Web D.” book talks about routes, there are
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I’ve seen that, which is good, but I mean from within an action in a
controller or elsewhere, not from the console.

At some point, my application gets lists of URLs, and I want to know
what params their paths produce.

(Plus, oops! Those should have been curly braces.)

– Michael D.

On Apr 4, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Tobias Lütke wrote:

6

This is great! Thanks!!

Ingo

ruby script/console
Loading development environment.
app.get >> app.get ‘/’
=> 200

app.controller.params
=> {“action”=>“index”, “controller”=>“shop”}

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Michael D. wrote:

I’ve seen that, which is good, but I mean from within an action in a
controller or elsewhere, not from the console.

At some point, my application gets lists of URLs, and I want to know
what params their paths produce.

This might help:

http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2006/04/04#HeadlessApp

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Ray