:any option for rails 3 routes

Question

In rails 2 you can use the :any option to define a custom route that responds to any request method e.g.

map.resources :items, :member => {:erase => :any}

rails 3 doesn't seem to support the :any option

resources :items do
  get :erase, :on => :member # works
  any :erase, :on => :member # doesn't work
end

does anyone know if this option has been removed or just renamed?

Answer 1

Good question.

Looking at the Edge Rails routing guide and the Rails 3 source it doesn't look like it's supported. You could raise a ticket in the Rails Lighthouse (I couldn't find an existing one for this).

Answer 2

From digging around and seeing what the get, post, put, and delete actions actually do in ActionDispatch, I think all you need to do is match. So:

resources :items do
  get :erase, :on => :member
  match :erase, :on => :member
end

I don't think that syntax for match is actually documented, but the routes it constructs are, atleast for me, what you'd expect from an all method

Answer 3

Match will work, but not inside a resources definition unfortunately. I rather wish they'd bring back a way to define get/post at least together..