hash_branch routing - routes are not triggered when navigating.

[sumwatt]

I'm a little stumped and think the answer will be more obvious than I expect. I'm using a slightly modified version of the Roda-Sequel template and modeled my initial routing based on the prefix1 file.

My default route / is pointing to root, no issues loading the page

I added a directory in the routes ./routes/apitest
I added two files to the routes directory, apitest.rb and products.rb

I modified app.rb to autoload the new directory:

if Unreloader.autoload?
   plugin :autoload_hash_branches
   autoload_hash_branch_dir("./routes")
   autoload_hash_branch_dir("./routes/apitest")
end

apitest.rb:

class MyTools
  hash_branch("apitest") do |r|
    @nav_items = Family.all
    r.is do
      r.get do
        view "index"
      end
    end
    r.hash_branches
  end
end

products.rb:

class MyTools
  hash_branch("/apitest", "products") do |r|
    r.is do
      r.get do
        view "products"
      end
    end
  end
end

/apitest works fine, but /apitest/products does not appear to get loaded/routed (404). I've checked the console and can see apitest.rb getting Unloaded/loaded, but products.rb does not. I've gone through the documentation and not sure if I'm just overlooking something simple or not. I tried to model my routes similar to those in the Mastering Roda guide but not quite sure if that was the right track. I'd appreciate any pointers!

[jeremyevans]

I didn't test, but I'm guessing your problem is with autoload_hash_branch_dir("./routes/apitest"), because you are not providing a namespace. I'm guessing it should be: autoload_hash_branch_dir("/apitest", "./routes/apitest"). With your current code, the autoload_hash_branch plugin would try to load ./routes/apitest/products.rb if you go to /products, since it was setup to look in the default namespace instead of the /apitest namespace. See https://roda.jeremyevans.net/rdoc/classes/Roda/RodaPlugins/AutoloadHashBranches.html

[sumwatt]

Thanks for the reply. I think you're pointing me in the right direction. I removed the autoloaders and just did

Dir["routes/**/*.rb"].each do |route_file|
      require_relative route_file
    end

... and changed the directory structure a bit to:
routes: routes/apitest/products/products.rb
views: views/apitest/products/products.erb

... and the routes are working like I expect. So this points me to something with the autoloader that I'm not doing right. I'll keep poking at it.

Thanks for your help!

[opya]

Hi @sumwatt ,

i tested with roda-sequel-stack with routes directory structure:

├── routes
│   ├── apitest
│   │   └── products.rb
│   ├── apitest.rb
│   └── prefix1.rb

# cat routes/apitest.rb 
class MyApp
  hash_branch("apitest") do |r|
    r.is do
      r.get do
        'APITEST'
      end
    end

    r.hash_branches
  end
end

# cat routes/apitest/products.rb 
class MyApp
  hash_branch '/apitest', 'products' do |r|
    r.is do
      r.get do
        'PRODUCTS'
      end
    end
  end
end

I've added this additional autoload_hash_branch_dir for apitest in the app.rb as Jeremy suggested and it worked.

autoload_hash_branch_dir('/apitest', './routes/apitest')

[sumwatt]

@opya - Ah! Thank you. It was the file layout. I originally had it like this:

├── routes
│   ├── products.rb
│   ├── apitest.rb

... I was misunderstanding where the auto-loader was expecting the child branches, thinking that if the path and namespace were defined it would include the child branches even if they were in the same directory. I added created routes/apitest and moved products.rb to it directory and everything works.