Rails 6 shows routes in expanded format

The output of rails routes is in the table format.

$ rails routes
   Prefix Verb   URI Pattern               Controller#Action
    users GET    /users(.:format)          users#index
          POST   /users(.:format)          users#create
 new_user GET    /users/new(.:format)      users#new
edit_user GET    /users/:id/edit(.:format) users#edit
     user GET    /users/:id(.:format)      users#show
          PATCH  /users/:id(.:format)      users#update
          PUT    /users/:id(.:format)      users#update
          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.

$ rails routes --expanded

--[ Route 1 ]--------------------------------------------------------------
Prefix            | users
Verb              | GET
URI               | /users(.:format)
Controller#Action | users#index
--[ Route 2 ]--------------------------------------------------------------
Prefix            |
Verb              | POST
URI               | /users(.:format)
Controller#Action | users#create
--[ Route 3 ]--------------------------------------------------------------
Prefix            | new_user
Verb              | GET
URI               | /users/new(.:format)
Controller#Action | users#new
--[ Route 4 ]--------------------------------------------------------------
Prefix            | edit_user
Verb              | GET
URI               | /users/:id/edit(.:format)
Controller#Action | users#edit

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.