Cleaning up Rails routes with non-restful actions

routes, ruby-on-rails

Solution

You can use the member function of routing.

resources :user, to: 'subscriptions', :only => [] do
  member do
    get 'subscription_requests'
    post 'subscribe'
    etc
  end
end

And this will produce routes such as:

subscription_requests_user GET    /user/:id/subscription_requests(.:format)        subscriptions#subscription_requests
subscribe_user POST   /user/:id/subscribe(.:format)                    subscriptions#subscribe

Docs: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#adding-more-restful-actions

Problem

I have a subscriptions controller with routes that look like this: ``` get 'user/:user_id/subscription_requests' => 'subscriptions#index', as: :subscription_requests post 'user/:user_id/subscribe' => 'subscriptions#subscribe', as: :user_subscribe post 'user/:user_id/unsubscribe' => 'subscriptions#unsubscribe', as: :user_unsubscribe post 'user/:user_id/request_subscription' => 'subscriptions#request_subscription', as: :request_user_subscription post 'user/:user_id/accept_subscription' => 'subscriptions#accept', as: :accept_subscription_request post 'user/:user_id/reject_subscription' => 'subscriptions#reject', as: :reject_subscription_request ``` All of them except `index` are non-restful actions. How do you make this cleaner in the routes file using something like `resources` while keeping the `user/:user_id/` in the path? Update for clarity: I'm trying to avoid listing the routes line by line and instead do something like what rails provides with the restful actions. Something like: `resources :subscription_requests, :only => [:subscribe, :unsubscribe, :reject, :accept, etc]`

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