It feels more consistent to have this class called "HtmlTableFormatter",
and to have it here with the routes inspector and console formatter,
since it's used for both routing error exceptions and the rails info
page.
When someone gets a routing exception, the routes are rendered (starting in Rails 4.0). This PR brings parity between the html routes in the `rails/info/routes` path and when rendered from an exception. This is the continuation of #8521 which brought html formatted routes.
In addition to bringing parity to the two views, we're keeping our views DRY by rendering off of the same partials. In this case Railties depends on partials provided by ActionDispatch. I'm open to alternative implementations. Ideally both views will use the same code so any improvements or updates to it will be reproduced on both.
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this is so we can show route output in the development when we get a routing error. Railties can use features of ActionDispatch, but ActionDispatch should not depend on Railties.
If someone receives a routing error, they likely need to view the routes. Rather than making them visit '/rails/info/routes' or run `rake routes` we can give them that information on the page.