# Overriding restful routes **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 21, 2007, 9:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/overriding-restful-routes/123850 "2007-12-21T09:45:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jney)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 9:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/overriding-restful-routes/123850/1 "2007-12-21T09:45:46Z")
Hi! i got those 2 routes: map.preferences ‘/preferences’, :controller =\> ‘preferences’, :action =\> ‘new’, :requirements =\> { :method =\> :get } map.resource :preferences what i want to do is: - if user type address /preferences it goes to new, instead of index. (this point works) - if method is other than a “get” method, it should do the usual REST action (it doesn’t work). someone know how i do it? ---
**Author:** ![jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jney)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/overriding-restful-routes/123850/2 "2007-12-21T10:51:20Z")
It sounds like you are hacking the singleton resource to fit your url to show as /preferences. I have created a patch that might help you in this case. [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10578](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10578) But anyway still, with your hack the easiest thing to do would be to use the resources and redirect to new on the GET index. On Dec 21, 1:45 pm, “Jean-Sébastien” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jney)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/overriding-restful-routes/123850/3 "2007-12-21T14:10:02Z")
your patch looks nice. And i have others question about your patch. does it manage internationalization? i mean /productos/1 and /products/1 would be the same page or just spanish is available? ---
**Author:** ![jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jney)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/overriding-restful-routes/123850/4 "2007-12-21T14:41:47Z")
i just try your patch but doesn’t works for me… i don’t know why. i’ll find the problem. On Dec 21, 2:09 pm, “Jean-Sébastien” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jney)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/overriding-restful-routes/123850/5 "2007-12-21T17:00:06Z")
what error did you get? On Dec 21, 6:41 pm, “Jean-Sébastien” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jney)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/overriding-restful-routes/123850/6 "2007-12-21T17:00:41Z")
I am afraid, it cannot handle internationalisation On Dec 21, 6:09 pm, “Jean-Sébastien” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jney)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/overriding-restful-routes/123850/7 "2007-12-22T01:26:59Z")
ufff feel stupid, it works perfectly (i made a routing error) ---
**Author:** ![jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jney)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 11:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/overriding-restful-routes/123850/8 "2007-12-22T11:35:35Z")
Good to know that. May be you should update the ticket with your experience, so others might benefit. Thanks. On Dec 22, 5:26 am, “Jean-Sébastien” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)