Change namespace in Rails routes

Question

I have namespaced routing like

/example/list/

namespace :example do
  resource :list
  ...
end

Need to change it to

/newexample/list/

I can certainly do it by changing example => newexample in routes.rb, but module example is used vastly in the project. so changing it by this method would require to update almost each Controller, Js, CSS file.

Is there any way to map newexample => example namespace in routes.rb? or Any other out of box solution?

Answer 1

You can specify a path when using a namespace with the path option. In your example you would have something like this:

namespace :example, path: 'newexample' do
  resources :list
end

You can also specify the module instead, like so

namespace :newexample, module: :example do
  resources :list
end

The routes created will be the same (/newexample/list will map to the example module).

The difference will be in the route helper names: for the first example, your helper will be example_lists_path, in the second one it will look like newexample_lists_path (which means you would have to update your links in your views)

You can also check the docs on scoping routes if you need more detailed info