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Lauraponi
Lauraponi

Reputation: 319

routes generated with rails

When I try to generate one route as shown on Rails documentation (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html), such as:

get '/patients/:id', to: 'patients#show'

the route I generate doesn't have any prefix, i.e. I cannot create a link to that page, for example:

link_to "patient profile", prefix_path(patient)

However when I use resource routing, which generates all the routes at once, the routes created all have a prefix. 

resources :patients

Why can I not get a prefix with the first method?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 39

Answers (1)

Gerry
Gerry

Reputation: 10497

Rails creates all url helpers automatically every time you use resources, but for custom routes, you need to specify it yourself using as, for example:

get '/patients/:id', to: 'patients#show', as: 'patient_show'

And to use it:

<%= link_to "patient profile", patient_show_path(patient) %>

Upvotes: 1

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