Create named routes for OmniAuth in Rails 3

Question

After having watched Ryan\'s excellent Railcast Simple OmniAuth, I\'ve managed to implement authentication in my app.

Everything is working fine, but in my view I have l

Answer 1

Notice that in link_to, you're just providing a string for the route argument. So you can just define a method in a helpers file.

# application_helper.rb
module ApplicationHelper
  def signin_path(provider)
    "/auth/#{provider.to_s}"
  end
end

# view file
<%= link_to 'Sign in with Twitter', signin_path(:twitter) %>

If you want to get all meta

# application_helper.rb
module ApplicationHelper
  def method_missing(name, *args, &block)
    if /^signin_with_(\S*)$/.match(name.to_s)
      "/auth/#{$1}"
    else
     super
    end
  end
end

#view file
<%= link_to 'Sign in with Twitter', signin_with_twitter %>