Ruby on Rails - Complex route constraints made easy
In Rails, we know that the routes are the most important entry-point where we define the which url hits which controller. We also know how to define the resources and add some conditions to the routing.
In Rails, we know that the routes are the most important entry-point where we define the which url hits which controller. We also know how to define the resources and add some conditions to the routing.
In this post, I want to concentrate about how to go about complex route conditions and make it easy for you to write modular code.
Let's say that you have to write a condition that if the domain belongs to a given domain, route the root url to some other controller. You can accomplish it using the following snippets:
Here you are creating a class for the domain constraint and having the required method called matches? which does the computing on the fly.
class DomainConstraint def initialize(domain) @domains = [domain].flatten end def matches?(request) @domains.include? request.domain end end
Now you add the code to the routes.rb as following:
constraints DomainConstraint.new('mydomain.com') do root :to => 'mydomain#index' end
The above code makes sure that the requests coming to a mydomain.com will have a root url at the mydomain controller and index action!
Happy Railing!