On 10-10-19 05:20 PM, Murph2m wrote:
Hi All,
I am following a Ruby on rails tutorial and everything is working but
I am struggling a bit to follow what is happening and why:
I have created the following routes.db and I just want some help
understanding what it is doing?
SampleApp::Application.routes.draw do
get "pages/home"
get "pages/contact"
get "pages/about"
get "pages/help"
match '/contact', :to => 'pages#contact'
match '/about', :to => 'pages#about'
match '/help', :to => 'pages#help'
root :to => 'pages#home'
end
I am in the process of reading http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html
but it is a learning curve!
Is it saying to match '/contact' with 'pages/contact' and to get
'pages/contact'? If so what is the # for in 'pages#contact'?
Any help understanding really appreciated!
Thanks
Matt
match '/contact', :to => 'pages#contact'
reads, match path '/contact' and load controller Pages and execute
action 'contact'
however you can remove the comma and also ':to =>' to define the route as:
match '/contact' => 'pages#contact'
if you run 'rake routes' you will see:
contact /contact(.:format) {:controller=>"pages", :action=>"contact"}
this tells you that the format "pages#contact" is in the form:
controller#action
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