What is that get in routes?

Rails
1

I’ve create a operator_session_controller:

class OperatorSessionsController < ApplicationController

def destroy
reset_session
redirect_to ‘https://…’
end

end

I’ve put resource :operator_session in routes.rb.
It’s all ok.
Suddenly I see in routes.rb the line:

get “operator_session/destroy”

It was automatically put on.
What does it mean?

2

Can you please post the entire content of routes.rb. And what is your
rails version and any other routes based plugins are installed in your
application?

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Regards,

T.Veerasundaravel.
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@veerasundaravel

3

I’m using rails 3.0, I don’t have plugins installed but only gems and
they are:

abstract (1.0.0)
actionmailer (3.0.0)
actionpack (= 3.0.0)
mail (~> 2.2.5)
actionpack (3.0.0)
activemodel (= 3.0.0)
activesupport (= 3.0.0)
builder (~> 2.1.2)
erubis (~> 2.6.6)
i18n (~> 0.4.1)
rack (~> 1.2.1)
rack-mount (~> 0.6.12)
rack-test (~> 0.5.4)
tzinfo (~> 0.3.23)
activemodel (3.0.0)
activesupport (= 3.0.0)
builder (~> 2.1.2)
i18n (~> 0.4.1)
activerecord (3.0.0)
activemodel (= 3.0.0)
activesupport (= 3.0.0)
arel (~> 1.0.0)
tzinfo (~> 0.3.23)
activerecord-jdbc-adapter (0.9.7-java)
activerecord-jdbcpostgresql-adapter (0.9.7-java)
activerecord-jdbc-adapter (= 0.9.7)
jdbc-postgres (>= 8.4.701)
activeresource (3.0.0)
activemodel (= 3.0.0)
activesupport (= 3.0.0)
activesupport (3.0.0)
arel (1.0.1)
activesupport (~> 3.0.0)
builder (2.1.2)
erubis (2.6.6)
abstract (>= 1.0.0)
i18n (0.4.1)
jdbc-postgres (8.4.701-java)
mail (2.2.5)
activesupport (>= 2.3.6)
mime-types
treetop (>= 1.4.5)
mime-types (1.16)
polyglot (0.3.1)
rack (1.2.1)
rack-mount (0.6.12)
rack (>= 1.0.0)
rack-test (0.5.4)
rack (>= 1.0)
rails (3.0.0)
actionmailer (= 3.0.0)
actionpack (= 3.0.0)
activerecord (= 3.0.0)
activeresource (= 3.0.0)
activesupport (= 3.0.0)
bundler (~> 1.0.0)
railties (= 3.0.0)
railties (3.0.0)
actionpack (= 3.0.0)
activesupport (= 3.0.0)
rake (>= 0.8.4)
thor (~> 0.14.0)
rake (0.8.7)
rubycas-client (2.2.1)
activesupport
thor (0.14.0)
treetop (1.4.8)
polyglot (>= 0.3.1)
tzinfo (0.3.23)
will_paginate (3.0.pre2)

The routes.rb is:

Sacchetti::Application.routes.draw do
get “operator_session/destroy”

resources :bags

resources :admins

resources :districts

resources :operators do
resources :deliveries
end

resources :rusers do
resources :deliveries
resources :doc_details
resources :delegates
end

resource :operator_session

match ‘:controller(/:action(/:id(.:format)))’
end

I don’t understand that get “operator_session/destroy”.

4

On 6 October 2010 04:43, Luke C. [email protected] wrote:

It just means that it’s a GET request from your browser as opposed to POST, PUT, or DELETE http methods. For example: GET would be used when you want to simply load a page, POST would be used if you wanted to submit a form.

Yes but I just have resource :operator_session in my routes.rb.
My question is: why rails put automatically that get
“operator_session/destroy”?

5

It just means that it’s a GET request from your browser as opposed to
POST, PUT, or DELETE http methods. For example: GET would be used when
you want to simply load a page, POST would be used if you wanted to
submit a form.

This is all pretty well documented in the rails guides:

Luke

6

What command line did you use to generate it ? If you specify only one
action I think it assumes that it’s a GET request even though destroy
would usually correspond with a DELETE request. I suggest you delete the
line and forget about it.

Luke

7

If you generated that controller then perhaps rails assumed a GET was
the safest thing to default?