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Ahmad Al-kheat
Ahmad Al-kheat

Reputation: 1795

Rails routes /new(.:format)

Let's say I have a wordsController, I understand that 

GET    /words(.:format)          /words#index

this route has a (.:format) at the end of the route so that I can choose different response format.

GET    /words/new(.:format)      /words#new

Why is there a (.:format) for the new action ?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 107

Answers (1)

smathy
smathy

Reputation: 27961

It's not about querying words with conditions, it's about providing different formats for Rails to respond to. See the period? That's so you can do things like: /words.json and get a JSON response, or /words.csv and get a CSV response.

You're right that there's no reason to have a /words/new.json URL, but Rails just adds the (.:format) to all URLs just in case you need/want it for some format.

Upvotes: 3

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