The output of rails routes is in the table format.
1$ rails routes 2 Prefix Verb URI Pattern Controller#Action 3 users GET /users(.:format) users#index 4 POST /users(.:format) users#create 5 new_user GET /users/new(.:format) users#new 6edit_user GET /users/:id/edit(.:format) users#edit 7 user GET /users/:id(.:format) users#show 8 PATCH /users/:id(.:format) users#update 9 PUT /users/:id(.:format) users#update 10 DELETE /users/:id(.:format) users#destroy
If we have long route names, they don't fit on the terminal window as the output lines wrap with each other.
Rails 6 has added a way to display the routes in an expanded format.
We can pass --expanded switch to the rails routes command to see this in action.
1$ rails routes --expanded 2 3--[ Route 1 ]-------------------------------------------------------------- 4Prefix | users 5Verb | GET 6URI | /users(.:format) 7Controller#Action | users#index 8--[ Route 2 ]-------------------------------------------------------------- 9Prefix | 10Verb | POST 11URI | /users(.:format) 12Controller#Action | users#create 13--[ Route 3 ]-------------------------------------------------------------- 14Prefix | new_user 15Verb | GET 16URI | /users/new(.:format) 17Controller#Action | users#new 18--[ Route 4 ]-------------------------------------------------------------- 19Prefix | edit_user 20Verb | GET 21URI | /users/:id/edit(.:format) 22Controller#Action | users#edit 23
This shows the output of the routes command in much more user friendly manner.
The --expanded switch can be used in conjunction with other switches for searching specific routes.