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class ActionDispatch::Routing::Mapper
def draw(routes_name)
instance_eval(File.read(Rails.root.join("config/routes/#{routes_name}.rb")))
end
end
BCX::Application.routes.draw do
draw :api
draw :account
draw :session
draw :people_and_groups
draw :projects
draw :calendars
draw :legacy_slugs
draw :ensembles_and_buckets
draw :globals
draw :monitoring
draw :mail_attachments
draw :message_preview
draw :misc
root to: 'projects#index'
end
@evilmarty
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This is an awesome feature. Is it in master yet? I'm unable to find it in the code nor is it documented.

@rubytastic
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this fails for RAILS 4:

config.paths['config/routes'].unshift Dir[Rails.root.join('config/routes/.rb')]

Any thoughts?

@shime
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shime commented Sep 20, 2013

@rubytastic you can always force Rails to reload routes from your middleware!

class RoutesReloader
  def initialize(app)
    @app = app
  end

  def call(env)
    Rails.application.reload_routes!

    @app.call(env)
  end
end

# in config/environments/development.rb

config.middleware.use RoutesReloader

Enjoy reloading routes on every request!

@sharipov-ru
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@shime it works, but makes application very slow:

time = Benchmark.measure { 10.times { Rails.application.reload_routes!  }  }

=> #<Benchmark::Tms:0x007fb4809b3840
 @cstime=0.0,
 @cutime=0.0,
 @label="",
 @real=4.654909,
 @stime=0.020000000000000018,
 @total=4.640000000000004,
 @utime=4.6200000000000045>

It adds more than 450 ms for every request.

Hopefully there is still other possible solution: we can use ActiveSupport::FileUpdateChecker for tracking changes in config/routes directory:

class RoutesReloader
  ROUTES_PATH = Dir.glob("config/routes/*.rb")

  def initialize(app)
    @app = app

    @routes_reloader = ActiveSupport::FileUpdateChecker.new(ROUTES_PATH) do
      Rails.application.reload_routes!
    end
  end

  def call(env)
    @routes_reloader.execute_if_updated

    @app.call(env)
  end
end

@joxxoxo
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joxxoxo commented Sep 8, 2015

@sharipov-ru, it's much better but I'd like to add a small improvement:
ActiveSupport::FileUpdateChecker.new([], 'config/routes' => 'rb') do ... end
This way it should find new files as well.

@iGEL
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iGEL commented Nov 12, 2015

Guys, it's very outdated. You now can just require other routes files without monkey patching, they just have to repeat the Rails.application.routes.draw do:
config/routes.rb:

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  load Rails.root.join("config/routes/dev.rb")
  #...
end

config/routes/dev.rb:

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  scope "dev" do
    # ...
  end
end

No dynamic reloading tho, probably @sharipov-ru's reloader still works.

@h0jeZvgoxFepBQ2C
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h0jeZvgoxFepBQ2C commented Dec 7, 2016

Anyone found a nice solution on how to seperate route files and still make them auto reloading during development?

Edit: Going now with a combination of the mentioned solutions...

# config/environments/development.rb
class RoutesReloader
  def initialize(app)
    @app = app

    @routes_reloader = ActiveSupport::FileUpdateChecker.new([], 'config/routes' => 'rb') do
      Rails.application.reload_routes!
    end
  end

  def call(env)
    @routes_reloader.execute_if_updated

    @app.call(env)
  end
end

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  ...
  config.middleware.use RoutesReloader
end
# config/routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do
  routes = [:admin_routes, :admin_routes_old, :public_routes, :api_routes]
  routes.each{ |route_file| load Rails.root.join("config", "routes", "#{route_file}.rb") }
end

@JosueMerlos
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How can I use concern with this conven?
https://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#routing-concerns

concern :commentable do
  resources :comments
end
resources :messages, concerns: :commentable

can I do this?

draw :api, concerns: :commentable

or there another way?

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