Ruby on Rails发布请求路由

Question

I am a newbie in the world of ruby on rails, and trying to find out how routing works. I read some articles about it but something is not clear to me.
If I have a page, with a message sender form and try to send the data via post, I have to set the route sg like this:

post '/send', to: 'message#send'

with this it works fine. But what if I have an another page with another form and I want to link it to another controller/action(post request too). How can It make a disctinction between the 2 posts?

Answer 1

You can pass some special parameter and check it's value in controller, for instance:

class MessageController < ApplicationController
  def send
    if params[:kind] == 'some_value'
      do_one_thing
    else
      do_anoter_thing
    end
  end
end

But in this case your action will become fat and ugly. Thus I suggest you to create new action and separate logic in a natural way:

post '/my_send_from_one_place', to: 'message#my_send_from_one_place'
post '/my_send_from_secong_place', to: 'message#my_send_from_secong_place'