Module: ActionDispatch::Routing::Mapper::Scoping

Included in:
ActionDispatch::Routing::Mapper
Defined in:
lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb

Overview

You may wish to organize groups of controllers under a namespace. Most commonly, you might group a number of administrative controllers under an ‘admin` namespace. You would place these controllers under the `app/controllers/admin` directory, and you can group them together in your router:

namespace "admin" do
  resources :posts, :comments
end

This will create a number of routes for each of the posts and comments controller. For ‘Admin::PostsController`, Rails will create:

GET       /admin/posts
GET       /admin/posts/new
POST      /admin/posts
GET       /admin/posts/1
GET       /admin/posts/1/edit
PATCH/PUT /admin/posts/1
DELETE    /admin/posts/1

If you want to route /posts (without the prefix /admin) to ‘Admin::PostsController`, you could use

scope module: "admin" do
  resources :posts
end

or, for a single case

resources :posts, module: "admin"

If you want to route /admin/posts to ‘PostsController` (without the `Admin::` module prefix), you could use

scope "/admin" do
  resources :posts
end

or, for a single case

resources :posts, path: "/admin/posts"

In each of these cases, the named routes remain the same as if you did not use scope. In the last case, the following paths map to ‘PostsController`:

GET       /admin/posts
GET       /admin/posts/new
POST      /admin/posts
GET       /admin/posts/1
GET       /admin/posts/1/edit
PATCH/PUT /admin/posts/1
DELETE    /admin/posts/1

Constant Summary collapse

POISON =

:nodoc:

Object.new

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#constraints(constraints = {}, &block) ⇒ Object

### Parameter Restriction Allows you to constrain the nested routes based on a set of rules. For instance, in order to change the routes to allow for a dot character in the ‘id` parameter:

constraints(id: /\d+\.\d+/) do
  resources :posts
end

Now routes such as ‘/posts/1` will no longer be valid, but `/posts/1.1` will be. The `id` parameter must match the constraint passed in for this example.

You may use this to also restrict other parameters:

resources :posts do
  constraints(post_id: /\d+\.\d+/) do
    resources :comments
  end
end

### Restricting based on IP

Routes can also be constrained to an IP or a certain range of IP addresses:

constraints(ip: /192\.168\.\d+\.\d+/) do
  resources :posts
end

Any user connecting from the 192.168.* range will be able to see this resource, where as any user connecting outside of this range will be told there is no such route.

### Dynamic request matching

Requests to routes can be constrained based on specific criteria:

constraints(-> (req) { /iPhone/.match?(req.env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]) }) do
  resources :iphones
end

You are able to move this logic out into a class if it is too complex for routes. This class must have a ‘matches?` method defined on it which either returns `true` if the user should be given access to that route, or `false` if the user should not.

class Iphone
  def self.matches?(request)
    /iPhone/.match?(request.env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])
  end
end

An expected place for this code would be ‘lib/constraints`.

This class is then used like this:

constraints(Iphone) do
  resources :iphones
end



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb', line 1046

def constraints(constraints = {}, &block)
  scope(constraints: constraints, &block)
end

#controller(controller) ⇒ Object

Scopes routes to a specific controller

controller "food" do
  match "bacon", action: :bacon, via: :get
end



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb', line 928

def controller(controller)
  @scope = @scope.new(controller: controller)
  yield
ensure
  @scope = @scope.parent
end

#defaults(defaults = {}) ⇒ Object

Allows you to set default parameters for a route, such as this:

defaults id: 'home' do
  match 'scoped_pages/(:id)', to: 'pages#show'
end

Using this, the ‘:id` parameter here will default to ’home’.



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb', line 1057

def defaults(defaults = {})
  @scope = @scope.new(defaults: merge_defaults_scope(@scope[:defaults], defaults))
  yield
ensure
  @scope = @scope.parent
end

#namespace(path, options = {}, &block) ⇒ Object

Scopes routes to a specific namespace. For example:

namespace :admin do
  resources :posts
end

This generates the following routes:

    admin_posts GET       /admin/posts(.:format)          admin/posts#index
    admin_posts POST      /admin/posts(.:format)          admin/posts#create
 new_admin_post GET       /admin/posts/new(.:format)      admin/posts#new
edit_admin_post GET       /admin/posts/:id/edit(.:format) admin/posts#edit
     admin_post GET       /admin/posts/:id(.:format)      admin/posts#show
     admin_post PATCH/PUT /admin/posts/:id(.:format)      admin/posts#update
     admin_post DELETE    /admin/posts/:id(.:format)      admin/posts#destroy

### Options

The ‘:path`, `:as`, `:module`, `:shallow_path`, and `:shallow_prefix` options all default to the name of the namespace.

For options, see ‘Base#match`. For `:shallow_path` option, see `Resources#resources`.

# accessible through /sekret/posts rather than /admin/posts
namespace :admin, path: "sekret" do
  resources :posts
end

# maps to +Sekret::PostsController+ rather than +Admin::PostsController+
namespace :admin, module: "sekret" do
  resources :posts
end

# generates +sekret_posts_path+ rather than +admin_posts_path+
namespace :admin, as: "sekret" do
  resources :posts
end



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb', line 973

def namespace(path, options = {}, &block)
  path = path.to_s

  defaults = {
    module:         path,
    as:             options.fetch(:as, path),
    shallow_path:   options.fetch(:path, path),
    shallow_prefix: options.fetch(:as, path)
  }

  path_scope(options.delete(:path) { path }) do
    scope(defaults.merge!(options), &block)
  end
end

#scope(*args) ⇒ Object

Scopes a set of routes to the given default options.

Take the following route definition as an example:

scope path: ":account_id", as: "account" do
  resources :projects
end

This generates helpers such as ‘account_projects_path`, just like `resources` does. The difference here being that the routes generated are like /:account_id/projects, rather than /accounts/:account_id/projects.

### Options

Takes same options as ‘Base#match` and `Resources#resources`.

# route /posts (without the prefix /admin) to +Admin::PostsController+
scope module: "admin" do
  resources :posts
end

# prefix the posts resource's requests with '/admin'
scope path: "/admin" do
  resources :posts
end

# prefix the routing helper name: +sekret_posts_path+ instead of +posts_path+
scope as: "sekret" do
  resources :posts
end



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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb', line 869

def scope(*args)
  options = args.extract_options!.dup
  scope = {}

  options[:path] = args.flatten.join("/") if args.any?
  options[:constraints] ||= {}

  unless nested_scope?
    options[:shallow_path] ||= options[:path] if options.key?(:path)
    options[:shallow_prefix] ||= options[:as] if options.key?(:as)
  end

  if options[:constraints].is_a?(Hash)
    defaults = options[:constraints].select do |k, v|
      URL_OPTIONS.include?(k) && (v.is_a?(String) || v.is_a?(Integer))
    end

    options[:defaults] = defaults.merge(options[:defaults] || {})
  else
    block, options[:constraints] = options[:constraints], {}
  end

  if options.key?(:only) || options.key?(:except)
    scope[:action_options] = { only: options.delete(:only),
                               except: options.delete(:except) }
  end

  if options.key? :anchor
    raise ArgumentError, "anchor is ignored unless passed to `match`"
  end

  @scope.options.each do |option|
    if option == :blocks
      value = block
    elsif option == :options
      value = options
    else
      value = options.delete(option) { POISON }
    end

    unless POISON == value
      scope[option] = send("merge_#{option}_scope", @scope[option], value)
    end
  end

  @scope = @scope.new scope
  yield
  self
ensure
  @scope = @scope.parent
end