如何在Rails中正确定义获取和发布路线？

Question

Recently I've been working with rails. I have a form with form_tag, which receives a helper post from routes.rb. I have the same route in get to access this form, and I have the route in posrt to be able to send the data of the previous form:

get 'students/:student_id/monitorings/inscribir', to: 'monitorings#inscribir', as: :inscribir_student_monitoring
post 'students/:student_id/monitorings/inscribir', to: 'monitorings#inscribir', as: :inscribir_student_monitoring_post

My question is, how can I separate these routes? Since, according to investigating, this can cause problems, since both have the same address, and really if it is causing me problems, since when entering this link the form is executed automatically.

Do you necessarily have to separate the two routes? And if that is true, how can I do it? I tried something similar to what rails do with respect to the method get new and post create method but adapted to my case, but it has not worked for me.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Do you necessarily have to separate the two routes?

No! Unless your both routes have a same name , it won't be a problem. For instance if you have routes like below

get 'students/:student_id/monitorings/inscribir', to: 'monitorings#inscribir', as: :inscribir_student_monitoring
post 'students/:student_id/monitorings/inscribir', to: 'monitorings#inscribir', as: :inscribir_student_monitoring

then Rails would rails an exception like so

ArgumentError: Invalid route name, already in use: 'inscribir_student_monitoring' You may have defined two routes with the same name using the :as option, or you may be overriding a route already defined by a resource with the same naming. For the latter, you can restrict the routes created with resources as explained here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#restricting-the-routes-created

Since your routes have a different name , this won't be a worry. Though you can shorten your code by using match

match 'students/:student_id/monitorings/inscribir', to: 'monitorings#inscribir', via: [:get, :post]