Is there a way to make “rake routes” look better?

Question

I am always forced to make my terminal window two dual monitors wide just to see read them right. I\'m not a stickler for buttery GUI\'s, but this is ridiculous.

Is ther

Answer 1

EDIT: The answer below was packaged into the html_routes gem which supports Rails 3 and 4.

The code below was made with the current Rails 3.2.3, groups by controller and looks awesome. Remember to change the to your app name and add gem 'syntax' to your Gemfile.

desc 'Pretty print out all defined routes in match order, with names. Target specific controller with CONTROLLER=x.'

task :routes => :environment do
if ENV['CONTROLLER']
  all_routes = ::Application.routes.select { |route| route.defaults[:controller] == ENV['CONTROLLER'] }
else
  all_routes = ::Application.routes
end

convertor = Syntax::Convertors::HTML.for_syntax "ruby"

File.open(File.join(Rails.root, "routes.html"), "w") do |f|
  f.puts "
         
         "

  last_contrl = nil

  routes = all_routes.routes.collect do |route|
    if !route.requirements.empty?
      if route.requirements[:controller] != last_contrl
        f.puts "" if last_contrl
        last_contrl = route.requirements[:controller]
        f.puts "
Controller: #{last_contrl}
" +
               "" 
      end

      reqs = route.requirements.inspect
      verb = route.verb.source
      verb = verb[1..(verb.length-2)] if verb
      r = { :name => route.name, :verb => verb, :path => route.path, :reqs => reqs }
      f.puts "" +
              ""
    end
  end

  f.puts "
Name
Verb
Path
Requirements
#{r[:name]}
#{r[:verb]}
#{r[:path]}
#{convertor.convert(r[:reqs])}
"
end
end