How to edit output of "rake routes"

Question

I have a problem - how to edit output of command "rake routes"?

I got something like this:

It is ugly and unreadable. Any ideas how to change this output to more readable?

[EDIT] It is funny how I got these "minuses", but actually, noone has answered my question. I was asking about how to EDIT/MODIFY output of command "rake routes", not how to edit my terminal to show everything in one line. Of course, this is what I was looking for, partially, but it is not a good answer to my question.

I was looking for something like this:

stackoverflow.com/questions/20715385/how-to-format-rake-routes

but above solution doesnt work, maybe because it is quite old.

Still, if anyone knows answer to my question, that would be great to get it.

Answer 1

Have you tried accessing the HTML Routes view?

You can enable it adding this route get '/rails/info/routes' => 'routes' in your config/routes.rb file and then access the http://localhost:3000/rails/info/routes and you will see something like this:

Answer 2

You can grep your routes from the command line, like this:

For example, if you're looking for any route involving the word 'foobar'

rake routes | grep foobar

This is great if you just want quick output from the command line.

Here's a guide to GREP that I learned a lot from: https://www.maketecheasier.com/beginners-guide-to-grep/

Answer 3

Rails 6+

This is how you can edit the output of the command rails routes in the terminal.

Rails 6 introduced --expanded option.

Here is an example:

$ rails routes --expanded
--[ Route 1 ]------------------------------------------------------------
Prefix            | high_scores
Verb              | GET
URI               | /high_scores(.:format)
Controller#Action | high_scores#index
--[ Route 2 ]------------------------------------------------------------
Prefix            | new_high_score
Verb              | GET
URI               | /high_scores/new(.:format)
Controller#Action | high_scores#new
--[ Route 3 ]------------------------------------------------------------
Prefix            | blog
Verb              |
URI               | /blog
Controller#Action | Blog::Engine

[ Routes for Blog::Engine ]
--[ Route 1 ]------------------------------------------------------------
Prefix            | cart
Verb              | GET
URI               | /cart(.:format)
Controller#Action | cart#show

And a link to PR .