Restful routes and Rails Console

Rails
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The following is a snippet of the routes.rb file:

map.resources :blogs do |blog|
blog.resources :posts do |post|
post.resources :comments
end
end

The index action in the CommentsController shows:

redirect_to comments_url

I am trying to see what comments_url resolves to in the Rails Console,
but do not know how.

Thanks in advance for your time and help.

2

Hi,

On Jan 28, 5:10 pm, Bharat R. wrote:

I am trying to see what comments_url resolves to in the Rails Console,
but do not know how.

There’s a good reason for this: You don’t use/need urls in your
console.
The best way is to write tests for your routes, this will also give
you the
most confidence in your own code.

ciao, tom

3

Hi–
On Jan 28, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Thomas R. Koll wrote:

console.
The best way is to write tests for your routes, this will also give
you the
most confidence in your own code.

If you want to test routes, shoulda[1] has macros for that. For rspec
users, that would be carlosbrando-remarkable[2].

If you still want to puch this stuff into console,

include ActionController::UrlWriter
new_session_path
=> “/session/new”

See if this helps.

[1] Projects - Shoulda
[2] carlosbrando’s remarkable at master - GitHub

4

Thank you Steve. This is precisely what I needed.
Thomas, I appreciate your time as well. It is just that I learn better
by typing “things” in the Rails Console in bits and pieces and see what
happens. It is this interactive nature of Ruby and Rails which I like
very much. Reminds me of the “Immediate Window” in Visual Basic/Access
which made me very productive.

But I do agree with both you gentlemen that a structured testing
methodology is better suited for the task.

Regards,

Bharat