Comments on: Restful Routing: An Overview

By: ngw

ngw — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:08:20 +0000

Unrestful, don’t reimplement redirect_to :back :)

By: Radar

Radar — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:01:07 +0000

Unrestful:

I can't think of anyway, sorry.

By: Unrestful

Unrestful — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:10:22 +0000

I'm a n00b at rails, and have this situation I'd like to resolve with restful routes. I've defined a metod "back" in application.rb which goes back in browser history. All controllers benefits from this.

Is there a restful way to accomplish the same?

Regards.

By: Radar

Radar — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:25:11 +0000

The code for this can be found at http://github.com/radar/rboard.

By: Walter

Walter — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:21:20 +0000

Thanks for an excellent article. I’m a beginner. Do you have the code for this example? If so, would you post it here or mail it to me please? Thanks in advance. Regards. Walter.

By: Pan

Pan — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:52:56 +0000

Thanks for writing such a helpful article. I’ve learned really much from it.

By: Brenton

Brenton — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:25:45 +0000

Very funny post! If only I’d found this when I was learning REST.

By: Radar

Radar — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:41:15 +0000

The Restful routing syntax is designed to be easier to use, and yes of course it's not going to be compatible with previous versions of Rails (what is? :)). The reason why I prefer to use it is, instead of typing link_to "New Blog", :controller => "blogs", :action => "new" I can now type <%= link_to "New Blog", new_blog_path %>, or even <%= link_to "New Blog", @blog %> if @blog is defined as Blog.new.

Yes, it will be a pain bringing those older views in line with the new syntax but once you've done it you get a consistent, easy to use syntax across everything.

How were you specifying variables in your redirect_to before?

By: Gudasoft » Blog Archive » Rails 2.0 scaffolding

Gudasoft » Blog Archive » Rails 2.0 scaffolding — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:25:51 +0000

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By: Hadmut

Hadmut — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:33:44 +0000

Hi,

sorry to contradict, but restful routing is neither plain nor simple. In my eyes it is just bad design.

If it were plain and simple, it would not require such explanatory articles.

I am just busy with porting a rails application to rails 2.0 and found that this restful routing breaks backwards compatiblity. Old views don't work with new views generated with scaffolding. Formerly the paths were of the simple structure /:controller/:action/:id, but now they don't have any consistent structure anymore.

Formerly, functions like redirect_to could take variables as parameters for controller, action and id, but now I don't see a way to do this consistently anymore.

In my eyes, the restful routing is of poor design and shortsighted. It just causes confusion and makes things more complicated.

Was there any good reason to introduce it?