# Named route called "connect"

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/named-route-called-connect/161270>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 24, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/named-route-called-connect/161270 "2009-02-24T23:29:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![dodeantn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@dodeantn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dodeantn)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/named-route-called-connect/161270/1 "2009-02-24T23:29:17Z")

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Hi,

is it possible to create a named route called “connect”? There’s no  
way to do it the “normal” way (e.g. map.connect :controller =\>  
“connect”, :action =\> “index”) since connect is the name of a  
predefined method in the routing mechanism of rails.

Is it possible to declare the connection and the helper methods  
separately? Are there public ActionController::Routing methods to  
accomplish this?

Many thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![dodeantn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@dodeantn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dodeantn)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/named-route-called-connect/161270/2 "2009-02-24T23:34:38Z")

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On 24 Feb 2009, at 18:02, dodeantn wrote:

> accomplish this?

map.foo …

just expands to map.named\_route(‘foo’, …) if my memory is correct

Fred