Github's Style Routes

categories_routing_spec.rb

require 'spec_helper'

describe CategoriesController do
  describe "routing" do
    it '/solutions to Category#index' do
      path = categories_path
      path.should == '/solutions'
      { :get => path }.should route_to(
        :controller => 'categories',
        :action => 'index'
      )
    end
  end
end

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Readme

This routing allows the creation of urls like:

• http://www.mysite.com/solutions will route to CategoryController#index with the categories list
• http://www.mysite.com/solutions/widgets will route to ServicesController#index with all the services belonging to the "widgets" category
• http://www.mysite.com/solutions/widgets/awesome_widget will route to ServicesController#show with the page showing the details of the "awesome_widget" service

This implementation will need the use of the friendly_id gem (https://github.com/norman/friendly_id) in order to generate and use the category and service's names as id.

routes.rb

MyApp::Application.routes.draw do
  # snip...
  scope '/solutions' do 
    resources :categories, :path => '', :only => [:index] do
      resources :services, :path => '', :only => [:index, :show] do
        get '/pay', :to => "orders#pay", :as => "pay"
        get '/buy', :to => "orders#new", :as => "buy"
        post '/buy', :to => "orders#create"
        delete '/cancel', :to => "orders#destroy"
      end
    end
  end
end

services_routing_spec.rb

require 'spec_helper'

describe ServicesController do
  describe "routing" do
    it '/solutions/:category_id to Services#index' do
      path = category_services_path 'foocategory'
      path.should == '/solutions/foocategory'
      { :get => path }.should route_to(
        :controller => 'services',
        :action => 'index',
        :category_id => 'foocategory'
      )
    end
    it '/solutions/:category_id/:service_id to Services#show' do
      path = category_service_path 'widgets', 'awesome_widget'
      path.should == '/solutions/widgets/awesome_widget'
      { :get => path }.should route_to(
        :controller => 'services',
        :action => 'show',
        :category_id => 'widgets',
        :id => 'awesome_widget'
      )
    end
  end
end