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- The Two Purposes of Routing
- Bound Parameters
- Wildcard Components ("Receptors")
- Static Strings
- The routes.rb File
- The Ante-Default Route and respond_to
- The Empty Route
- Writing Custom Routes
- Using Static Strings
- Using Your Own "Receptors"
- A Note on Route Order
- Using Regular Expressions in Routes
- Default Parameters and the url_for Method
- Using Literal URLs
- Route Globbing
- Globbing Key-Value Pairs
- Named Routes
- What to Name Your Routes
- The Special Scope Method with_options
- Conclusion
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This chapter is from the book
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The Special Scope Method with_options
Sometimes you might want to create a bundle of named routes, all of which pertain to the same controller. You can achieve this kind of batch creation of named routes via the with_options mapping method.
Let's say you've got the following named routes:
map.help '/help', :controller => "main", :action => "help" map.contact '/contact', :controller => "main", :action => "contact" map.about '/about', :controller => "main", :action => "about"
You can consolidate these three named routes like this:
map.with_options :controller => "main" do |main| main.help '/help', :action => "help" main.contact '/contact', :action => "contact" main.about '/about', :action => "about" end
The three inner calls create named routes that are scoped—constrained—to use "main" as the value for the :controller parameter, so you don't have to write it three times.
Note that those inner calls use main, not map, as their receiver. After the scope is set, map calls upon the nested mapper object, main, to do the heavy lifting.