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I have to agree - The path helpers are very opaque. It would probably do Rails well to generate a app/helpers/path_helper.rb file with the actual implementation

• hwhelchel 12y ago
  `rake routes` will output the routes and paths. Appending _path or _url to the path will generate appropriate methods.
  • troels 12y ago
    Sure. But that still doesn't tell me exactly which arguments they take. Or give me an opportunity to debug the code when it doesn't do as I expect. I realise that it just-works (tm). It's when it doesn't, it gets problematic.
    • epochwolf 12y ago
      It's actually pretty easy to tell the parameters they take if you look at the url for the route. For: story GET /story/:id(.:format) story#show You get story_path(id) story_path(id, format) story_url(id) story_url(id, format) In practice it doesn't cause as many problems as you think, even in large applications.