Dynamically adding and removing routes

Rails
1

Hello,

Is it possible to alter a Rails app’s routing table at runtime? I
want to be able to add and remove routes from an admin application.

Thanks.

Michael

2

Michael A. wrote:

Is it possible to alter a Rails app’s routing table at runtime? I
want to be able to add and remove routes from an admin application.

I would put p ‘yo’ inside the route map, run the app, and see how often
it
prints. I don’t know if it’s once per route, once per action, or only at
startup
time.

However, if you need to think outside the route box entirely, I suspect
you can
use this:

map.any_route ‘/*paths’, :controller => ‘foo’, :action =>
‘any_action’

Now the system will call any_action with a params[:paths] set to an
array of
each /path/element/ in an URI. Then you parse and dispatch them
yourself.

But I can’t think of any reason to add or remove routes in a way that
solves an
actual web problem…

–
Phlip

3

I found that I can just call require ‘config/routes’ at the right time
in my action to rebuild the entire routing table. That’s good enough
for me.

Thanks.

Michael