rake js:routes

Generate a ES6 module that contains Rails routes.

Description

This gem provides "js:routes" rake task. It generates a ES6 requirable module which exports url helper functions defined in your Rails application.

Suppose the app has following routes:

# == Route Map
#
#       Prefix Verb   URI Pattern                  Controller#Action
#     articles GET    /articles(.:format)          articles#index
#              POST   /articles(.:format)          articles#create
#  new_article GET    /articles/new(.:format)      articles#new
# edit_article GET    /articles/:id/edit(.:format) articles#edit
#      article GET    /articles/:id(.:format)      articles#show
#              PATCH  /articles/:id(.:format)      articles#update
#              PUT    /articles/:id(.:format)      articles#update
#              DELETE /articles/:id(.:format)      articles#destroy
Rails.application.routes.draw do
  resources :articles
end

then rake js:routes generates "app/assets/javascripts/rails-routes.js" as:

// Don't edit manually. `rake js:routes` generates this file.
export function article_path(params) { return '/articles/' + params.id + ''; }
export function articles_path(params) { return '/articles'; }
export function edit_article_path(params) { return '/articles/' + params.id + '/edit'; }
export function new_article_path(params) { return '/articles/new'; }

VS.

railsware/js-routes spreads url helpers via global variable.

This gem uses ES6 modules.

Requirement

• Rails >= 3.2

Usage

Generate routes file.

rake js:routes

Configuration

JSRailsRoutes supports several parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
include_paths	Regexp	paths match to the regexp are included	/.*/
exclude_paths	Regexp	paths match to the regexp are excluded	/^$/
include_names	Regexp	names match to the regexp are included	/.*/
exclude_names	Regexp	names match to the regexp are excluded	/^$/
path	String	JS file path	Rails.root.join("app", "assets", "javascripts", "rails-routes.js")

You can configure via JSRailsRoutes.configure.

# Rakefile
JSRailsRoutes.configure do |c|
  c.exclude_paths = %r{^/(rails|sidekiq)}
  c.path = Rails.root.join('path', 'to', 'rails-routes.js')
end

Now rake js:routes ignores paths starting with "/rails" or "/sidekiq".

Command line parameters

You can override the coniguration via command line parameters:

rake js:routes exclude_paths='^/rails'

The command still ignores "/rails" but includes "/sidekiq".

Install

Your Rails Gemfile:

gem 'js_rails_routes', group: :development

License

MIT

Author

mizchi wrote "js:routes" task with referencing mtrpcic/js-routes.

yuku-t refactored and improved the mizchi's script and published to rubygems.