I''ve been banging my head against this for a while, and would love to see someone prove that I am just overlooking something simple. I am trying to add a custom route to my RESTful resource. Because route is destructive, I want to use "POST" http method. If I hack my routes.rb to use GET, everything works just fine: 2 different server runs, only difference is get vs. post in my routes.rb Started POST "/maps/1/reload_from_deamon" for 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 17 23:17:32 -0700 2010 ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches "/maps/1/ reload_from_deamon"): Started GET "/maps/1/reload_from_deamon" for 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 17 23:26:53 -0700 2010 Processing by MapsController#reload_from_deamon as HTML Here are my symptoms: routes.rb resources :maps do member do post ''reload_from_deamon'' end end # i''ve also tried # resources :maps do # post ''reload_from_deamon'', :on => :member # and # match ''maps/:id/reload_from_deamon'' => "maps#reload_from_deamon", :via => :post MapsController def reload_from_deamon @map = Map.find(params[:id]) status = @map.reload_from_deamon redirect_to @map, :notice => status end I generate my post form as following, this might be what is killing me. I''ve been unable to coerce form_for to generate the proper POST url for me. <%= form_for @map, :url => map_path(@map)+ "/reload_from_deamon" do | f| -%> <button type="submit" class="button" onclick="document.location = ''/ maps/1''"> <img alt="" src="/images/web-app-theme/icons/ database_refresh.png">Refresh readers from deamon </button> <% end -%> Any ideas? Aleks Aleks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.