route issue in rails 4 about match keyword working in rails 3

Question

In rails 3 match keyword is working but in rails 4 match keyword is not working for routes

how can i define these routes in rails 4

this code segment is working in rails 3

match 'admin', :to => 'access#menu'

match 'show/:id', :to => 'public#show'

match ':controller(/:action(/:id(.:format)))'

i need generic formula for rails 4 like in rails 3

 match ':controller(/:action(/:id(.:format)))'

Answer 1

Rails 4 removed generic match, you now have to specify which verb you want it to respond to. Typically you'd define your routes as:

get ':controller(/:action(/:id(.:format)))' => 'foo#matcher'

If you want it to use match to get multiple verbs, you can do it like this:

match ':controller(/:action(/:id(.:format)))' => 'foo#matcher', via: [:get, :post]

Answer 2

What is said in documentation:

In general, you should use the get, post, put and delete methods to constrain a route to a particular verb. You can use the match method with the :via option to match multiple verbs at once:

match 'photos', to: 'photos#show', via: [:get, :post] 

You can match all verbs to a particular route using via: :all:

match 'photos', to: 'photos#show', via: :all

(documentation)

Answer 3

the best way to do this is to first find the output of rake routes

$ rake routes

you'll get something like this:

[rails path] [verb] [url format] [controller#action]

so for example:

user_show  GET  /show/:id  public#show     

the action is what you need to look at. You should be using get or post rather than match - like this:

get 'show/:id', :to => 'public#show'