How to name a route in rails

I have some routes looking like this :

match 'hotels/:action(/:id)', :controller => 'hotel', :action => /[a-z]+/i, :id => /[0-9]+/i

And i want to use something like **hotels_dislike_path** somewhere in my code which refers to /hotels/dislike

How can i do that?

A lot has changed in the world of Rails since 2011 - this is how you would accomplish the same goal in Rails 4.

resources :hotels do
member do
post 'dislike'
post 'like'
end
end

The resulting routes:

dislike_hotel POST /hotels/:id/dislike(.:format) hotels#dislike
like_hotel POST /hotels/:id/like(.:format) hotels#like
hotels GET /hotels(.:format) hotels#index
POST /hotels(.:format) hotels#create
new_hotel GET /hotels/new(.:format) hotels#new
edit_hotel GET /hotels/:id/edit(.:format) hotels#edit
hotel GET /hotels/:id(.:format) hotels#show
PATCH /hotels/:id(.:format) hotels#update
PUT /hotels/:id(.:format) hotels#update
DELETE /hotels/:id(.:format) hotels#destro

Notice thats rails prefixes instead of postfixes the action - `dislike_hotel_path` not `hotels_dislike`.

From the [routing guide][1]:

> ##3.6 Naming Routes
>
> You can specify a name for any route using the :as option.
>
match 'exit' => 'sessions#destroy', :as => :logout

So, in your case, that would be:

match 'hotels/:action(/:id)', :controller => 'hotel', :action => /[a-z]+/i, :id => /[0-9]+/i
match 'hotels/dislike(/:id)', :controller => 'hotel', :id => /[0-9]+/i, :as => :hotels_dislike
match 'hotels/like(/:id)', :controller => 'hotel', :id => /[0-9]+/i, :as => :hotels_like

I don't think there's a way to do this dynamically (so you have to define one route for each action, basically). However, you can just define a couple of routes (like above) for the most used actions, and just use `hotels_path :action => :really_like` for more uncommon actions.

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