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Routing Walkthrough Part 1

#231 Routing Walkthrough Part 1

Sep 13, 2010 | 13 minutes | Routing, Rails 3.0, Code Walkthrough
How does routing work internally in Rails 3? In this episode I'll walk you through the Rails code that makes routing possible.
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bash 
git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git
git checkout v3.0.0
ruby 
match 'products', :to => 'products#index'
# same as
match 'products', :to => ProductsController.action("index")

match 'products/recent'
# same as
match 'products/recent', :to =>'products#recent', :as => 'products_recent'