A proof of concept of having Sinatra like routes inside your controllers.
Since the router is gone, feel free to remove config/routes.rb
.
Then add the file below to lib/action_controller/inline_routes.rb
inside your app.
Then, all you need to do is to tell your Rails application what is the endpoint it should use. It is as easy as:
class Application < Rails::Application
endpoint lambda { |env| ApplicationController.call(env) }
end
We use a lambda
so the controller is reloaded in development.
You could pass simply endpoint ApplicationController
if you
don't care about reloading.
Now, Rails will skip the router and go direct to ApplicationController
.
In there, simply do:
require "action_controller/inline_routes"
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
include ActionController::InlineRoutes
protect_from_forgery
get "/hello" do
render text: "Hello Gorgeous!"
end
end
And that is it! You can use all Rails helpers, filters, views, etc.
Internally, ActionController::InlineRoutes
is going to
define an index action for you. So callbacks, middleware
and everything works just fine and as if you were inside
the index action.
In cases no route matches, the method not_found
can be called, which you can then further customize
or simply do nothing and let Rails default behaviour
kick in.
You could even mix Rails conventional actions with this Sinatra routes style, but please don't!
-
Sinatra routes pattern matching does not work. You can't do "/posts/:id" yet, if you need this, fork it!
-
Add support to
mount
(like in Rails routers, also calledforward
in Sinatra(. This will allow you to organize your code in more than one controller. Again, fork it if you need it! -
Make it a gem with proper README, release and docs!
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