Newcomer task: Rails route explorer

[leastbad]

One thing some projects do that we could do more of is identifying problems that would be good for newcomers to tackle. We've been really thrilled to see lots of new faces over the past few weeks, and so here is a bouquet toss for an excellent project idea that could get your contribution featured on the Stimulus Reflex Expo site.

Rails routes explorer

Let's offer visitors a demo where they can inspect the routes on the site. It can borrow elements from the Tabular (sorting), Book Search (filtering) and Todos (facets) demos.

You can obtain this data from running rake routes and memoizing it, or from introspecting the Rails routing system directly, if you know how to do that.

The idea is that you could filter by string, sort by name, method, etc, and use checkboxes to turn on/off things like http verb.

Genuinely useful and relevant to developers while showing off a practical use case. Who's interested?

[leastbad]

These might prove helpful:

https://gist.github.com/NullVoxPopuli/8c8af217b7404336c72a

https://www.rubydoc.info/docs/rails/ActionDispatch/Routing/RouteSet

[estiens]

I pretty much have this done. Good learning exercise. I'll push up a PR tomorrow.

Half tempted to rip out bootstrap as well :D

[leastbad]

That's awesome!

Please don't touch Bootstrap, that would not be ideal.

[estiens]

Ha, no worries, just been awhile since I've used it and I didn't miss it much :)

Being able to implement a select autocomplete field without even making an Ajax endpoint was pretty swell though!