:as in rails routes.rb

Question

In config/routes.rb, I tried both:

root :to => \'things#index\', :as => \'things\'

and

root :to => \'         


        

Answer 1

Rails 4 compatible.

In path_to_your_app/config/routes.rb

get "/profile/edit" => "users#profile_edit", :as => "edit_me"

Since ruby 2.0 you can use:

get "/profile/edit", to: "users#profile_edit", as: "edit_me"

In path_to_your_app/app/views/**in required view

<%= link_to "Edit profile", edit_me_path %>

Do not use match if you aren't sure you need it:

It creates a vulnerability when you use it in next pattern:

match ':controller/:action/:id'

From documentation:

You should not use the match method in your router without specifying an HTTP method. If you want to expose your action to both GET and POST, add via: [:get, :post] option. If you want to expose your action to GET, use get in the router:

Instead of: match "controller#action"

Do: get "controller#action"

Read more about:

About match

http://github.com/rails/rails/issues/5964

About routes mapping

http://apidock.com/rails/v4.0.2/ActionDispatch/Routing/Mapper/Base/match

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Routing/Mapper/Base.html

About routes in general

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Routing.html