Best practices to handle routes for STI subclasses in rails

Question

My Rails views and controllers are littered with redirect_to, link_to, and form_for method calls. Sometimes link_to and <

Answer 1

I'm in favor of using PolymorphicRoutes or url_for to dynamically generate routes based on the resource, any namespace, etc.

https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Routing/PolymorphicRoutes.html

https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Routing/UrlFor.html

polymorphic_url([:admin, @article, @comment])
# => admin_article_comment_url(@article, @comment)

edit_polymorphic_path(@post) 
# => "/posts/1/edit"

With admin namespace

url_for([:admin, Role])
# => "admin/roles" # index

url_for([:admin, Role, action: :new])
# => "admin/roles/new" # new

url_for([:admin, @role])
# => "admin/roles/1" # show; for destroy, use link "method: :delete"

url_for([:edit, :admin, @role])
# => "admin/roles/1/edit" # edit