Overriding named routes provided by Rails 3 Engines

Question

I am working on a Ruby on Rails 3(.0) application that uses a Rails engine. However, in my local application, I want to override one of the routes provided by the Rails engi

Answer 1

You need add initializer hook to config/application.rb, like this:

class Application < Rails::Application

  config.encoding = "utf-8"

  ...

  initializer :add_routing_paths do |app|
    their_routes_path = app.routes_reloader.paths.select{|path| path =~ /DIR/}.first
    app.routes_reloader.paths.delete(their_routes_path)
    app.routes_reloader.paths.unshift(their_routes_path)
  end
end

It's load roues.rb of you engine first and you can override their routes.