Ember.js: Index route (or rather, route at '/') with nesting breaks routing in ember 2.7

[acburdine]

So I was trying to update Ghost to Ember 2.7, and I ran into a fairly large issue with ember's routing that breaks the application.

The scenario: Ghost has a route called posts, with a path of / and a nested route inside of it (post) that has the path :post_id. Ghost also has several other routes like team (/team), setup (path: /setup), etc., some with nesting and some without.

Prior to Ember 2.7, this worked just fine, but after trying to upgrade, each explicit route (e.g. /team, /setup, etc.) is now hitting the posts.post route, and being treated as a post id.

Ghost's router.js: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-Admin/blob/master/app/router.js

I also built a couple of Twiddles to give a simpler example.

Ember 2.6 - https://ember-twiddle.com/cfbaa6316214d725c87be3e80c131d82

• type in to the route input /5 (or anything other than /team)
  
  
  
  • notice that an alert appears saying "Post Route with id: 5" (or whatever you entered)
  
  
• type in to the route input /team
  
  
  
  • notice that an alert appears saying "Team Route"
  
  

Ember 2.7 - https://ember-twiddle.com/0da9cf763f86ce395bfbfe7072e43c53

• type in to the route input /5 (or anything other than /team)
  
  
  
  • notice that an alert appears saying "Post Route with id: 5" (or whatever you entered)
  
  
• type in to the route input /team
  
  
  
  • notice that an alert appears saying "Post Route with id: team"
  
  

I wasn't sure if this was unexpected breaking behavior, or if Ghost's router is doing something wrong. If Ghost's router is doing something wrong, it would be awesome to figure out a way to fix it 😄

[acburdine]

Note: I believe it's related to this PR

[nathanhammond]

@acburdine we know what this problem is, and it's us, not you. There will be a 2.7.1 release addressing this bug. I don't know where to tell you to follow along but know it's an ongoing discussion. In the mean time I suggest you stick with 2.6. 😄

[acburdine]

@nathanhammond thank you for the quick reply!

[mixonic]

@acburdine does this issues cause the ghost tests to fail? If I can get you a build with our proposed fix, can you run those tests easily or can I?

[acburdine]

@mixonic the straight upgrade to ember 2.7 triggered the errors - both in tests and in actual running of the app - you should be able to run the tests easily 😄

Although if you want me to run them just let me know

[mixonic]

I've uploaded a production build of Ember with proposed fixes here:

• https://s3.amazonaws.com/uni.madhatted.com/ember-2.7.0-routerfix/ember.debug.js

There is a full ember build in that dir, so min.js and prod.js are also there. I'll attempt to repro the issue with Ghost and confirm this fix.

[mixonic]

Neat, I've confirmed both the original failure in tests and that the above build fixes this regression.