Rails: how do you access RESTful helpers?

Question

I'm trying to work through this guide to Rails routing, but I got stuck in section 3.3:

Creating a RESTful route will also make available a pile of helpers within your application

and then they list some helpers like photos_url, photos_path, etc.

My questions:

Where can I find the complete list of helpers that is "made available?"

Is there a way to call the helpers in the console? I created an app, then opened up the console with script/console. I tried to call one of the helpers on the console like this:

>> entries_url

But got:

NameError: undefined local variable or method `entries_url' for #<Object:0x349a4>
    from (irb):8

score 66 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '09 at 16:54

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You have several questions in there, most of which have already been answered by people below.

The answer to one that wasn't fully addressed however, is: yes you can use the script/console to see where your routes go. Just type in app.[route_helper] and it will respond with the path. For example app.users_path will return /users/

So for your example type app.entries_url for the full URL - or app.entries_path for its relative path within the console.

edited Apr 13 '09 at 16:54

John Topley

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answered Jan 11 '09 at 23:47

Tim Knight

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the extra anchovies is that it does tab completion, e.g., at the console type app.edit[tab] and it lists all routing helper methods beginning with 'edit'. – pduey Sep 30 '11 at 17:26

score 18 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 11 '09 at 23:33

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rake routes at the command line should get you that list.

answered Jan 11 '09 at 23:33

Mike Woodhouse

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Take the first column and append _url to have the full URI or _path to have an URI not including the domain name. – Vincent Robert Jan 12 '09 at 00:28
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Is there any way to generate a list of helpers, with _url and _path and parameters written explicitly? Would be most helpful in the case of nested resources, to see clearly what parameters each helper takes, if any. – Magne Feb 23 '11 at 11:51

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 11 '09 at 22:48

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I think this may be what you are looking for ... http://topfunky.com/clients/peepcode/REST-cheatsheet.pdf

answered Jan 11 '09 at 22:48

DanSingerman

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 20 '11 at 18:23

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You can access other helpers in the console by prepending "helper."; ie. helper.progress_box (assuming #progress_box exists of course)

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answered Jan 12 '09 at 00:59

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score -6 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 11 '09 at 23:52

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From memory, you can't call url/path helpers from the console for some reason.

answered Jan 11 '09 at 23:52

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Rails: how do you access RESTful helpers?

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