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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Frontend Development Introducing Views

Benjamin Aragon
Benjamin Aragon
4,221 Points
Posted by Benjamin Aragon
Benjamin Aragon
4,221 Points

How does this application function with no routes defined in the routes.rb file? Aren't routes necessary?

The routes file is empty. Seems like the whole application wouldn't work without any routes defined.

4 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Yes, resources gives you all the basic routes used for most applications. GET is used for specific or custom ones.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

I downloaded the code from this stage and it has all the routes:

resources :statuses
Benjamin Aragon
Benjamin Aragon
4,221 Points
Benjamin Aragon
Benjamin Aragon
4,221 Points

Shouldn't routes be defined like so: get 'beans/new' => 'beans#new'

What does resources :statuses do? It summarizes all Gets, Posts, Deletes, etc. into one line?

Kevin Mulhern
Kevin Mulhern
20,374 Points
Kevin Mulhern
Kevin Mulhern
20,374 Points

resources :statuses create all 7 of the crud routes

index

show

new

create

edit

update

delete

Just think of it as a short cut to create the routes to the above controller actions. It's really helpful because you should be using the REST routes with your models anyway, and do it cuts down on the code you have to write in your routes file.