I am trying to change the route of /felines within my app to /cats, and I would like to do this while making as few changes to my app code as possible (i.e. not renaming model, controller, or references to URL helpers).
In routes.rb I am doing
get '/felines', to: redirect('/cats')
resources :cats, as: 'felines'
FelinesController#index at /cats - good/felines to /cats - also goodBut when debugging, I found that
new_feline_path is /cats/new - goodfelines_path is /felines - BAD!I also found that felines_path will become /cats, as desired, if I switch the order of the two lines in routes.rb.
Why does the order of those lines affect the value of felines_path?
Is there a better way I could achieve the re-routing and redirection?
get '/felines', to: redirect('/cats')
rails generates felines_path route helper for the above route and since the priority is from top to bottom, felines_path will point to /felines. That is the reason why it points to /cats when you change the order.
Assign a different name for your custom route so it doesn't override your felines path
get '/felines', to: redirect('/cats'), as: 'felines_redirect' #or someother name like that
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