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

Posted by Andrew Schrenk
Andrew Schrenk
11,557 Points

Where does the "pages_path"" method come from?

Jay added "pages_path" method for the redirect back to the list of all posts page. Where does that method come from?

Thanks!

2 Answers

Jordan Barr
Jordan Barr
21,335 Points

Hey Andrew,

'Pages_path' is the path helper method for the 'pages#show' action in the routes.rb file

Path helper methods are just a shortcut instead of typing out a full link path each time you want to create a link.

In the routes.rb file a path helper in this case is added after the 'pages#show' and is written like this:

as: 'pages'

Rails will automatically add the '_path' to this :)

Hope that helps clear it up :)

Andrew Schrenk
Andrew Schrenk
11,557 Points
Andrew Schrenk
Andrew Schrenk
11,557 Points

Thanks! After I did the next lesson I figured out that it was just a shortcut.