Routes With Same URL Mapped To Different Actions

Rails
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Can’t find the answer to this. My old message received no responses
(subject was messed up).

Is it possible to create routes that have the same URL yet map to a
different action based on the HTTP method (or pseudo method) like a
Rails’ resource?

For example:

map.resources :foo, :collection => { :purge => :get, :purge_them
=> :post }

I’d like to use /foo/purge for both actions, and have the appropriate
controller method called based on the HTTP request’s method -like /foo
does for the create and index methods, amongst others.

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On Sep 9, 2009, at 7:06 PM, MaggotChild wrote:

map.resources :foo, :collection => { :purge => :get, :purge_them
=> :post }

I’d like to use /foo/purge for both actions, and have the appropriate
controller method called based on the HTTP request’s method -like /foo
does for the create and index methods, amongst others.

map.connect(‘/foo/purge’, :controller => ‘foo’, :action =>
‘purge’ , :conditions => { :method => :get })
map.connect(‘/foo/purge’, :controller => ‘foo’, :action =>
‘purge_them’, :conditions => { :method => :post})
map.resources :foo

I put parentheses in so the wrapping doesn’t kill the syntax.

Since there is an implied precedence based on appearance, if the
map.resources(:foo) comes first, GET /foo/purge, looks like you want
to show the Foo with id=‘purge’. (I’m not sure, but a POST /foo/purge
might do the FooController#purge_them in either case).

I hope that helps.

-Rob

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
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