How to name a route in rails

Question

I have some routes looking like this :

match \'hotels/:action(/:id)\', :controller => \'hotel\', :action => /[a-z]+/i, :id => /[0-9]+/i

Answer 1

From the routing guide:

3.6 Naming Routes

You can specify a name for any route using the :as option.

match 'exit' => 'sessions#destroy', :as => :logout

So, in your case, that would be:

match 'hotels/:action(/:id)', :controller => 'hotel', :action => /[a-z]+/i, :id => /[0-9]+/i
match 'hotels/dislike(/:id)', :controller => 'hotel', :id => /[0-9]+/i, :as => :hotels_dislike
match 'hotels/like(/:id)', :controller => 'hotel', :id => /[0-9]+/i, :as => :hotels_like

I don't think there's a way to do this dynamically (so you have to define one route for each action, basically). However, you can just define a couple of routes (like above) for the most used actions, and just use hotels_path :action => :really_like for more uncommon actions.