how to set up and use a Rails routes prefix

Question

When running rake routes I see:

 Prefix   Verb   URI Pattern                                       Controller#Action
 articles  GET    /articles(.:format)               


        

Answer 1

You can do something like this:

resources :articles do
 collection do
      get  "new"  => "articles#new",  :as => 'new_document'
 end
end

and you can use it:

link_to "New foo", new_document_path 

or

link_to "New foo", new_document_url

url prints the absolute url (http://server.com/controller/action) meanwhile path prints the relative url (/controller/action).