Is there a way to make “rake routes” look better?

Question

I am always forced to make my terminal window two dual monitors wide just to see read them right. I\'m not a stickler for buttery GUI\'s, but this is ridiculous.

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Answer 1

I've rewritten the rake routes command slightly to generate a slightly more usable html version of the rake routes output

Create a file pretty_routes.rake and put this in lib/tasks/ and call rake pretty_routes and it should be slightly better

desc 'Pretty print out all defined routes in match order, with names. Target specific controller with CONTROLLER=x.'
task :pretty_routes => :environment do
  all_routes = ENV['CONTROLLER'] ? ActionController::Routing::Routes.routes.select { |route| route.defaults[:controller] == ENV['CONTROLLER'] } : ActionController::Routing::Routes.routes
  routes = all_routes.collect do |route|
    name = ActionController::Routing::Routes.named_routes.routes.index(route).to_s
    verb = route.conditions[:method].to_s.upcase
    segs = route.segments.inject("") { |str,s| str << s.to_s }
    segs.chop! if segs.length > 1
    reqs = route.requirements.empty? ? "" : route.requirements.inspect
    {:name => name, :verb => verb, :segs => segs, :reqs => reqs}
  end
  File.open(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, "routes.html"), "w") do |f|
    f.puts ""
    f.puts ""
    routes.each do |r|
      f.puts ""
    end
    f.puts "
Name
Verb
Segments
Requirements
#{r[:name]}
#{r[:verb]}
#{r[:segs]}
#{r[:reqs]}
"
  end
  `open #{File.join(RAILS_ROOT, "routes.html")}`
end

The second to last line only works on Mac OSX an in rails 2.x, but it automatically opens the file in your browser. If you are on a different platform, you will have to change the command.

If you are running Rails 3.x, the second to last line should be

 `open #{File.join(Rails.root, "routes.html")}`