Rails: How to define custom route but remove default ones

Question

I want to have an Image controller and allow single endpoint such as:

/images/upload

but disable all the other default ones.

resources :images, only: [] do
 collection do
  post "upload"
 end
end

This is my current approach that does the job, but is it the right one? Is there some sort of :none keyword to disable default routes? Or should i not use resources and do it some other way?

Nicolas Blanco · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-23 20:18:26Z

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Just use a single post route:

post "/images/upload", to: "images#upload", as: :images_upload

answered Jun 23, 2020 at 20:18

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spickermann · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-23 20:30:44Z

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IMO uploading an image can be understood as creating an image, therefore I would simply use the create method instead of an upload method:

resources :images, only: [:create]

answered Jun 23, 2020 at 20:30

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deltakroneker Over a year ago

I'm trying to follow the advice from this comment stackoverflow.com/a/42784598/12238373. I'm not creating an Image object, but rather I'm just uploading an image to Cloudinary, and returning the URL to the client, nothing else. Does it still seem appropriate to remove upload method and assign this code to create method?

spickermann Over a year ago

Sure. It is a Rails convention that HTTP POST requests are handled by the create method of the controller.

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