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andy (at stonean)

Rails.application.routes.recognize_path returning incorrect hash

Reported by andy (at stonean) | September 21st, 2010 @ 11:15 PM

Simple setup:

Add a resources :users to the routes.

Fire up rails console.

Rails.application.routes.recognize_path 'users/index' => {:action=>"show", :controller=>"users", :id=>"index"}

Notice the action is "show".

Rails 3. Ruby 1.9.2p0

Comments and changes to this ticket

  • andy (at stonean)

    andy (at stonean) September 21st, 2010 @ 11:16 PM

    • Title changed from “Rails.application.routes.recognize_path returning invalid hash” to “Rails.application.routes.recognize_path returning incorrect hash”
  • David Trasbo

    David Trasbo September 23rd, 2010 @ 09:20 AM

    • State changed from “new” to “invalid”
    • Importance changed from “” to “Low”

    This is in fact the intended behavior. Rails allows the :id fragment to contain a wide range of characters, not just numbers. Perhaps index is a bit unintuitive, but imagine a request to /users/john. Clearly we don't want the john action, but a user whose name (which acts as an id in this example) is john, e.g.

  • andy (at stonean)

    andy (at stonean) September 23rd, 2010 @ 02:15 PM

    Yeah, I agree completely. Just something that caught me by surprise and, at first, appeared incorrect.

    Thank you for the response and explanation.

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