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Posted by James White
James White
6,159 Points

rake routes in Build a Simple RoR App

I'm going through Laying Out the Page and here's what the screencast says:

"How did I know status_path. Sometimes you want to see all the different helper methods. You do that using "rake routes", it will print out a list of the URLs and methods."

statuses_path was what was used, but I don't see that listed as output from the command. It's said we could have given statuses_url but I don't see that listed also. Just statuses in the first column of the output. So how do we know _path and _url are available? What others are available and how do we know about them?

Thanks!

3 Answers

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey James, that's a built in Rails thing. Any item you see on the left column when running rake routes automatically gets a _path and _url helper method. The path method will do just the path such as "/statuses" and the url with do the full host with the path (eg http://localhost:3000/statuses).

James White
James White
6,159 Points
James White
James White
6,159 Points

Gotcha, thanks for the reply!

Are there other helper methods?