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While you’ve always been able to manually take a peek at what routes are defined in your application, this dollop of usefulness has now found its way into a rake task.

Just run

rake routes

and voila, all routes defined will be spit out in a tidy columnar form with the following columns:

route name, HTTP method, route path, route requirements

As an example, here is what my output looks like:

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   all_articles GET  /articles;all/      {:action=>"all", :controller=>"articles"}
search_articles GET  /articles;search/   {:action=>"search", :controller=>"articles"}

curl http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk/railties/lib/tasks/routes.rake > lib/tasks/routes.rake

This is particularly useful in RESTful implementations as there’s lot of routing magic happening for you under the covers. Now you have the means to take a harmless peek under said covers.

tags: ruby, rubyonrails, rake