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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Viewing Todo Items: Part 1

Posted by Simon Walsh
Simon Walsh
Courses Plus Student 1,741 Points

Routes in this movie

I notice Jason has many more routes on 'rake routes' than I have. He only generated the todo_items controller with index, not edit show etc etc....where did all these routes come from?

1 Answer

Joshua Shroy
Joshua Shroy
9,943 Points

Hi Simon,

Jason created all of his routes when he nested resources :todo_items under resources :todo_lists.

Resources creates the collection of routes for index, show, edit, destroy etc. for a specific controller. If you want :todo items to only have a single route for show, then you can specify that like this:

get 'todo_items', to: :show
Simon Walsh
Simon Walsh
Courses Plus Student 1,741 Points

Thanks bro. I worked this out a little later. I rushed through to quickly so my bad. Many thanks for getting back to me. Much appreciated Joshua

Simon