How to rename REST routes in URL?

Question

Give that I have a model called Apple and it has a controller ApplesController, the routes are:

resources :apples

    apples  GET          


        

Answer 1

For those seeking only to rename the helper method part:

resources :apples, as: "cars"

I.e. this would replace apples_path with cars_path, but still using the same controller/action.

Answer 2

What you will want to do is pass in the :path option

resources :apples, :path => "cars"

This replace all your route references with /apples to /cars

See: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html, Section 4.7 Translating Paths