Merb Routing

Routing is very similar to Rails:

In your config/router.rb define your routes as such:

Merb::Router.prepare do |r|
 r.resources :pages
 r.resources :contents
 r.resources :folders
 r.resources :functions
 r.resources :messages

 #Allows me to call link_to('Home', :home)
 r.resource :home, {:controller => 'home', :action => 'index'}
end

Update 2008.04.11:
The Rails way adds a bunch of methods for you after defining a resource (like I did with :folders). However, Merb operates differently. I actually think I prefer Merb's approach because it funnels all url generation to the "url" method instead of giving a bunch of different ways to do the same thing.

So, after you define your :folders resource you can do the following:

<%= link_to "List Folders", url(:folders)%>
<%= link_to "Show Folder", url(:folder, @folder)%>
<%= link_to "Create Folder", url(:new_folder)%>
<%= link_to "Edit Folder", url(:edit_folder, @folder)%>
<%= link_to "Delete Folder", url(:delete_folder, @folder)%>

As I learn more, the information will be posted here.

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