Sinatra Named Routes

This gem allows the use of named routes in Sinatra applications.

Usage

To use this gem you must register it in your Sinatra application.

require 'sinatra/base'
require 'sinatra/named_routes'

class MyApp < Sinatra::Base
  register Sinatra::NamedRoutes
end

The you use the map method to map a route to a name, and use that name when defining your routes.

require 'sinatra/base'
require 'sinatra/named_routes'

class MyApp < Sinatra::Base
  register Sinatra::NamedRoutes
  
  map :article, '/article/:id'
  
  get :article do
    # get article bla bla ...
  end
end

To generate urls in extends Sinatras built-in methods like url and to but it does not break them. They work like before except that now you can also pass the route name and paramters. The parameters have to be always passed as the last argument. Otherwise the url work the same.

# in your route or view you can write something like this
url :article, false, :id => 123 # /article/123

The map method supports the same routes as Sinatra does.

# named parameters
map :article, '/article/:id'

url :article, false, :id => 123 # /article/123
  
# splats
map :article, '/article/*.*'

url :article, false, [123, 'json'] # /article/123.json

# regular expressions
map :article, %r{/article/([\w]+).([\w]+)}

url :article, false, [123, 'json'] # /article/123.json
  
# named captures
map :article, %r{/article/(?<slug>[^/?#]+)}

url :article, false, :slug => 'hello_world' # /article/hello_world

# optional named captures
map(:articles, %r{/articles(?<format>.[^/?#]+)?})

url :articles, false, :format => '.html' # /articles.html