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Vasseurth
Vasseurth

Reputation: 6496

Rails Remove Certain routes

I have a rails app and I have some custom routes. I have a database called Reports. In my routes.rb i have match '/new' => 'reports#new' however the problem is that /new goes to the right place, but /reports/new is also still active. Is there a way to "deactivate" the standard /reports/new so that only /new works?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4261

Answers (2)

Marek Příhoda
Marek Příhoda

Reputation: 11198

Sure, there is. You can use the only option as in (for example):

resources :reports, :only => [:create, :edit, :update]

which defines routes only for the specified actions (run rake routes to see all the routes) (so it doesn't remove routes, it just does not generate them)

Edit: Plus, of course, there's also the except option (also see @Andy Gaskell's anwers) - which generates all routes except for the given actions, see the docs.

Upvotes: 6

Andy Gaskell
Andy Gaskell

Reputation: 31761

If you're only interested in disabling one action except may be more appropriate than only. It works in a similar way.

... :except => :new

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#restricting-the-routes-created

Upvotes: 6

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