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The output of rails routes
is in the table format.
1$ rails routes
2 Prefix Verb URI Pattern Controller#Action
3 users GET /users(.:format) users#index
4 POST /users(.:format) users#create
5 new_user GET /users/new(.:format) users#new
6edit_user GET /users/:id/edit(.:format) users#edit
7 user GET /users/:id(.:format) users#show
8 PATCH /users/:id(.:format) users#update
9 PUT /users/:id(.:format) users#update
10 DELETE /users/:id(.:format) users#destroy
If we have long route names, they don't fit on the terminal window as the output lines wrap with each other.
Rails 6 has added a way to display the routes in an expanded format.
We can pass --expanded
switch to the rails routes
command to see this in
action.
1$ rails routes --expanded
2
3--[ Route 1 ]--------------------------------------------------------------
4Prefix | users
5Verb | GET
6URI | /users(.:format)
7Controller#Action | users#index
8--[ Route 2 ]--------------------------------------------------------------
9Prefix |
10Verb | POST
11URI | /users(.:format)
12Controller#Action | users#create
13--[ Route 3 ]--------------------------------------------------------------
14Prefix | new_user
15Verb | GET
16URI | /users/new(.:format)
17Controller#Action | users#new
18--[ Route 4 ]--------------------------------------------------------------
19Prefix | edit_user
20Verb | GET
21URI | /users/:id/edit(.:format)
22Controller#Action | users#edit
23
This shows the output of the routes command in much more user friendly manner.
The --expanded
switch can be used in conjunction with
other switches for searching specific routes.