3 router

The Rails 3 Router: Rack it Up

In my previous post about generic actions in Rails 3, I made reference to significant improvements in the router. Some of those have been covered on other blogs, but the full scope of the improvements hasn’t yet been covered.

Generic Actions in Rails 3

So Django has an interesting feature called “generic views”, which essentially allow you to to render a template with generic code. In Rails, the same feature would be called “generic actions” (just a terminology difference).

This was possible, but somewhat difficult in Rails 2.x, but it’s a breeze in Rails 3.

Let’s take a look at a simple generic view in Django, the “redirect_to” view:

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