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Ruby Rails Routes and Resources A Route to a Delete Action Rails Resources

Peter Buckwalter
Peter Buckwalter
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Posted by Peter Buckwalter
Peter Buckwalter
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Assigning prefixes when using the resources :pages method

When using the resource :pages method to assign the 7 main routes for pages how do you assign prefixes like 'new_page',

1 Answer

Jay McGavren
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Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher
Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

When you use the resources method, everything is created automatically, including the names for the routes (which decide the names of helper methods like new_page_path). If you don't want to use the default route names, this Stack Overflow post might help.

Peter Buckwalter
Peter Buckwalter
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Peter Buckwalter
Peter Buckwalter
6,846 Points

Ok perfect. Thanks again Jay