Adding Custom Route to Rails app

Question

I have read up on the Rails Guides.

What I want to set up are the following routes that are routed to the \'profiles\' controller:

GET profiles/charities

Answer 1

The following will set up routes for what you want, but will map them to :index and :show of CharitiesController and DonorsController:

namespace :profiles do
  # Actions: charities#index and charities#show
  resources :charities, :only => [:index, :show]

  # Actions: donors#index and donors#show
  resources :donors, :only => [:index, :show]
end

When it's more appropriate to set up custom routes, something like this would do:

get 'profiles/charities', :to => 'profiles#charities_index'
get 'profiles/charities/:id', :to => 'profiles#charities_show'
get 'profiles/donors', :to => 'profiles#donor_index'
get 'profiles/donors/:id', :to => 'profiles#donor_show'

Here are relevant sections in the guide that you were going through:

1. Resource Routing: the Rails Default - Controller Namespaces and Routing
2. Non-Resourceful Routes - Naming Routes