Rails 3 route appends _index to route name

Question

I am migrating a Rails 2.3.8 version to Rails 3.0 and so ive rewritten my routes file. When i list the routes using rake routes, i see some route names have

Answer 1

It is because your resource is named :planner instead of :planners that Rails decided to add the _index to any collection nested underneath. My guess it is there for readability.

The action named in the collection normally translates to a verb, so I can see why this makes sense. Take the typical photos resource example given in the routing docs:

resources :photos do
  collection do
    get 'search'
  end
end

search_photos GET    /photos/search(.:format)

But if instead we called the resources 'photo'...

resources :photo do
  collection do
    get 'search'
  end
end

search_photo_index GET    /photo/search(.:format)

In the first case, you search the "photos", and in the second case you search the "photo index".

Answer 2

You should be using either resource :planner either resources :planners depending on what you need. To learn about singular resource and it differences check out Rails Guides.

Answer 3

Following on from Semyon Perepelitsa's response, note that resource :planner expects the controller's name is PlannersController, whereas resources :planners expects PlannerController.

If you don't want to rename your controller when changing from resources to resource, you can override the default by specifying resource :planner, controller: :planner.