2.3.4 routes regression

The following script described in section 21.2 of Agile Web Development with Rails, Edition 3 behaves differently in Rails 2.3.4 than it did in any prior version of Rails, and in fact, differently than the current Rails 3.0 head does:

http://media.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/code/e1/routing/config/rout...

In particular, the way this code interacts with the following predefined routes in Depot changed:

http://media.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/code/depot_t/config/routes.rb

The script actually can run in irb, whereas the book describes script/console. To see the script/console behavior under irb, change the initial require statements to: require 'config/environment.rb'.

Again, this behavior is specific to 2.3.4, this worked in Rails 1, and all versions of Rails 2 up to and including 2.3.3. It also works in 3.0-pre.

The simplest way to reproduce this is as follows:

$ git clone git://github.com/rubys/awdwr.git $ cd awdwr $ ruby makedepot.rb 6.1-21.2 $ cd work/depot $ irb ../../data/code/e1/routing/config/routes_for_blog.rb $ ruby script/console < ../../data/code/e1/routing/config/routes_for_blog.rb

Note that when the unmodified script is run under irb the last line output is:

=> "http://www.example.com/blog/2002"

And when run under script/console the last line output is:

=> "http://www.example.com/blog/show_date?year=2002"