Routing

Question 1

What can you include in your routes.rb file to create various routes with controller actions for a specific model

Answer 1

resources :articles

Question 2

If you want to have various routes created for you, but only have a few routes created with specific controller actions, what can you write? What about if you want all the routes, excluding a few?

Answer 2

resources :articles, only: [:index, :new, :create]

resources :articles, except: [:index, :new, :create]

Question 3

How can you check what routes are available for you in your application?

Answer 3

In terminal run: bundle exec rails routes

Question 4

How can you make a shorter/cleaner version of the HTML form element, using rails helper methods?

Answer 4

form_for [@article] do |f|

f. label :title
f. text_field :title
f. submit

Question 5

How do you see the root path of your application?

Answer 5

In your config/routes.rb file:

root controller: :landing, action: :index