rails routing controller action change

Question

Hello, rails friends. I'm struggling here with a problem: I have a controller questions which has action new. Whenever I need to create new question, I'm typing

/questions/new

What changes to routes.rb should I make to change the URI to

/questions/ask

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Thank you. Valve.

Answer 1

Which version of rails?

Generally the default route should catch anything like /:controller/:action, so you could just create an ask method in your questions controller. Take a look at the api documentation for named_route and map_resource if you want something a bit smoother to work with.

Answer 2

Try this:

map.ask_question   '/questions/ask', :controller => 'questions', :action => 'new'

Then you'll have a named route and you can:

link_to "Ask a question", ask_question_path

Answer 3

If you are using RESTful routes maybe you'd like to use map.resources for your questions.

To rename the action urls you may do this:

map.resources :questions, :path_names => { :new => 'ask', :delete => 'withdraw' }

(I added delete for the sake of the example)