The output of rails routes is in the table format.

$ rails routes Prefix Verb URI Pattern Controller#Action users GET /users(.:format) users#index POST /users(.:format) users#create new_user GET /users/new(.:format) users#new edit_user GET /users/:id/edit(.:format) users#edit user GET /users/:id(.:format) users#show PATCH /users/:id(.:format) users#update PUT /users/:id(.:format) users#update 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.

$ rails routes --expanded --[ Route 1 ]-------------------------------------------------------------- Prefix | users Verb | GET URI | /users(.:format) Controller#Action | users#index --[ Route 2 ]-------------------------------------------------------------- Prefix | Verb | POST URI | /users(.:format) Controller#Action | users#create --[ Route 3 ]-------------------------------------------------------------- Prefix | new_user Verb | GET URI | /users/new(.:format) Controller#Action | users#new --[ Route 4 ]-------------------------------------------------------------- Prefix | edit_user Verb | GET URI | /users/:id/edit(.:format) Controller#Action | users#edit

This shows the output of the routes command in much more user friendly manner.