Rails routing: Giving default values for path helpers

Question

Is there some way to provide a default value to the url/path helpers?

I have an optional scope wrapping around all of my routes:

#config/routes.rb
Foo::A         


        

Answer 1

I think you will want to do something like this:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

  def url_options
    { :current_brand => @current_brand }.merge(super)
  end

end

This method is called automatically every time url is constructed and it's result is merged into the parameters.

For more info on this, look at: default_url_options and rails 3

Answer 2

In addition to CMW's answer, to get it to work with rspec, I added this hack in spec/support/default_url_options.rb

ActionDispatch::Routing::RouteSet.class_eval do
  undef_method :default_url_options
  def default_url_options(options={})
    { :current_brand => default_brand }
  end
end