Matching regex

[guiocavalcanti]

I defined my routes as follows:

Redu::Application.routes.draw do
  namespace 'api' do
    match '*anything', :to => 'api#routing_error'
  end
end
ActionDispatch::Routing::Translator.translate_from_file('lang/i18n-routes.yml')

When I try to run rake routes I get this error:

(in /Users/guiocavalcanti/workspace/work/redu)
** Invoke routes (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
rake aborted!
can't convert Array into String
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/rack-mount-0.6.14/lib/rack/mount/regexp_with_named_groups.rb:31:in `initialize'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/rack-mount-0.6.14/lib/rack/mount/regexp_with_named_groups.rb:31:in `compile'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/rack-mount-0.6.14/lib/rack/mount/regexp_with_named_groups.rb:31:in `initialize'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/rack-mount-0.6.14/lib/rack/mount/regexp_with_named_groups.rb:25:in `new'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/rack-mount-0.6.14/lib/rack/mount/regexp_with_named_groups.rb:25:in `new'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route.rb:25:in `initialize'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb:186:in `inject'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route.rb:24:in `each'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route.rb:24:in `inject'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route.rb:24:in `initialize'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb:299:in `new'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb:299:in `add_route'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/rails-translate-routes-0.0.4/lib/rails-translate-routes.rb:195:in `translate'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/rails-translate-routes-0.0.4/lib/rails-translate-routes.rb:194:in `each'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/rails-translate-routes-0.0.4/lib/rails-translate-routes.rb:194:in `translate'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/rails-translate-routes-0.0.4/lib/rails-translate-routes.rb:193:in `each'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/rails-translate-routes-0.0.4/lib/rails-translate-routes.rb:193:in `translate'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/rails-translate-routes-0.0.4/lib/rails-translate-routes.rb:347:in `translate_from_file'
/Users/guiocavalcanti/workspace/work/redu/config/routes.rb:6

I'm trying to make a catch all route (inside api namespace) to rescue from RoutingError (see this reference for details).

[francesc]

You'll probably want to setup the api routes only in english as I don't see the point to have it several languages. Define a new Redu::Application.routes.draw do below the translated block (see the readme in backend section).

Hope it helps.

[guiocavalcanti]

I did what you suggested with no success:

Redu::Application.routes.draw do
  root :to => 'base#site_index', :as => :home
end

ActionDispatch::Routing::Translator.translate_from_file('lang/i18n-routes.yml')

Redu::Application.routes.draw do
  namespace 'api' do
    resources :environments, :except => [:new, :edit] do
      resources :courses, :except => [:new, :edit], :shallow => true
      resources :users, :only => :index
    end
    # ActionController::RoutingError
    match '*anything', :to => 'api#routing_error'
  end
end

The strange part is that when I remove the resources part everything works. Do you have any hints about that?

[francesc]

Weird, as the gem shouldn't be doing anything with the second routing block.

Does it work if you remove: ActionDispatch::Routing::Translator.translate_from_file('lang/i18n-routes.yml') line?

[guiocavalcanti]

Maybe the error is caused by the :except => [] part. I setup a fresh rails 3.0.11 project with this routes.rb file:

TranslateRoutesTest::Application.routes.draw do
  resources :environment, :except => [:index, :show]
end

ActionDispatch::Routing::Translator.translate_from_file('config/locales/i18n-routes.yml')

And the same error came out. Removing the except throws no error.

[guiocavalcanti]

By the way, it works removing the line you told me.

[francesc]

Maybe something was broken up when adding support to 3.1 and 3.2 I use plenty of except and only on resources on those versions and it works correctly.

If you're still using 3.0 maybe you want to give a try to https://github.com/raul/translate_routes the original gem we forked in order to have suport for 3.1 and 3.2

[bobbus]

I got the same errors on an application using Rails 3.0, it is probably because of this Rails version.

[francesc]

@bobbus @guiocavalcanti did you try the orginal gem? https://github.com/raul/translate_routes it should work ok for you until you decide to switch to Rails 3.2

[guiocavalcanti]

Yes, it worked fine for me. Thanks for the help. :)