Another Major Change to Merb Routes

Author: Duane Johnson

30 Aug

I updated the routing system to Merb again yesterday. I’ve added plenty of specs and examples now to illustrate its flexibility and usefulness. What I used to call “late-bound routes” is now “deferred routes” which makes more sense.

Take a look at the new specs for a run-through.

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6 Responses for "Another Major Change to Merb Routes"

Zack August 30th, 2007 at 5:08 pm 1
Sweet stuff!

Are you sure line 44 of the pastie (http://pastie.textmate.org/92610) is right? It looks like the title regex should yield to [0] in the match, no?
Duane Johnson August 30th, 2007 at 5:21 pm 2
It’s index base is 1 (since ‘0′ is the whole string when dealing with a MatchData object), so it’s correct. I would normally be more skeptical of myself, but the specs say it’s correct too
Going Up » New Router in Merb September 1st, 2007 at 6:24 am 3
[...] Note: The API has significantly changed since this posting. Best to check out this post for details. [...]
Jon March 11th, 2008 at 7:41 am 4
Thanks for posting this Duane. I’m new to Merb (and only a little more seasoned in Rails) so I could be totally wrong, but would line #13 ever match since it is just a more specific version of #11?
Duane Johnson March 11th, 2008 at 8:16 am 5
The matching tries to be exact, so no, #11 would not match if there is another “/” in the URL followed by an id.
Jon March 11th, 2008 at 9:16 am 6
Good to know. Thanks Duane.