I’m new to Ruby on Rails, and I’m wondering if it is possible to create a single-layered path name in Rails.
As far as I know, you can only create routes like home/about. Is there a way to only create /about instead?
I tried doing this with get '/test' where test has its own controller and a single HTML page in views, but Rails threw an error called: ArgumentError: Missing :controller key on routes definition, please check your routes.
Does this mean I cannot create a path like /about, but I have to create a path like home/about? I don’t think anybody else has asked this before.
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You just have to tell Rails which controller you actually want to dispatch the request to:
get :test, controller: :foos # implies that the action is test
get :test, controller: :foos, action: :bar
get :test, to: 'foos#bar' # shorthand for declaring controller and action
Or for a group of routes:
scope controller: :pages do
get :about
get :contact
end
These are commonly just referred to as non-resourceful routes and you can define them any way you want.