Rails Routing

Chapter 5. Named Routes

5.1	_path versus _url	46
5.2	What to Name Your Routes	47
5.3	The Special Scope Method, with_options	51

Although this is a short section, the topic of named routes definitely deserves a section of its own. And what you learn here will feed directly into our examination of REST-related routing a little later.

The idea of naming a route is basically to make life easier on you, the programmer. When you name a route, a new method gets defined for use in your controllers and views; the method is called name_url (with name being the name you gave the route), and calling the method, with appropriate arguments, results in a URL being generated for the route. In addition, a method called name_path also gets created; this method generates just ...