7deeds » routes http://blog.7deeds.com Petros Amiridis - A humble programmer's seven noteworthy actions for the community Mon, 31 May 2010 12:09:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Rails: url vs path http://blog.7deeds.com/2009/09/21/rails-url-vs-path/ http://blog.7deeds.com/2009/09/21/rails-url-vs-path/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:30:44 +0000 Petros http://blog.7deeds.com/?p=331 I was wondering why some people are using _path and why some use _url. For example, if you have a Post resource you can write the following in your view:

<%= link_to 'List of posts', posts_path %>

or the following in the controller:

redirect_to posts_url

Why should I use _url in the controller. I have used _path and it seems to work.

This is an explanation I found in a forum and I quote:

*_path are for views because ahrefs are implicitly linked to the current URL. So it’d be a waste of bytes to repeat it over and over. In the controller, though, *_url is needed for redirect_to because the HTTP specification mandates that the Location: header in 3xx redirects is a complete URL.

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