Provide Named Route's hash methods as helper methods. Closes #1744.

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actionpack/CHANGELOG

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+* Provide Named Route's hash methods as helper methods. Closes #1744. [Nicholas Seckar, Steve Purcell]
+
 * Added :multipart option to ActiveRecordHelper#form to make it possible to add file input fields #2034 [jstirk@oobleyboo.com]
 
 * Moved auto-completion and in-place editing into the Macros module and their helper counterparts into JavaScriptMacrosHelper

actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb

@@ -621,7 +621,9 @@ def known_hash_for_route(route)
         
         def define_hash_access_method(route, name)
           hash = known_hash_for_route(route)
-          define_method(hash_access_name(name)) { hash }
+          define_method(hash_access_name(name)) do |*args|
+            args.first ? hash.merge(args.first) : hash
+          end
         end
         
         def name_route(route, name)
@@ -634,6 +636,7 @@ def name_route(route, name)
           protected url_helper_name(name), hash_access_name(name)
       
           Helpers << url_helper_name(name).to_sym
+          Helpers << hash_access_name(name).to_sym
           Helpers.uniq!
         end
     

actionpack/test/controller/routing_test.rb

@@ -545,6 +545,7 @@ class RouteSetTests < Test::Unit::TestCase
   def setup
     @rs = ::ActionController::Routing::RouteSet.new
     @rs.draw {|m| m.connect ':controller/:action/:id' }
+    ::ActionController::Routing::NamedRoutes.clear
   end
   
   def test_default_setup
@@ -854,6 +855,11 @@ def test_named_route_method
     assert_equal ['/content/hi', []], rs.generate({:controller => 'content', :action => 'hi'})
   end
 
+  def test_named_route_helper_array
+    test_named_route_method
+    assert_equal [:categories_url, :hash_for_categories_url], ::ActionController::Routing::NamedRoutes::Helpers
+  end
+  
 end
 
 end