Rails - Feb 2006 - newbie wanting to understand controller action relationship

I still getting my feet wet with rails and I''m trying to learn some
good
ways of working with link_to_remote.

I''m using the user and login engines and I have in my layout this...
 link_to_remote( ''Login'', :update =>
''main-query'',
                                      :url =>{:action =>
''login''},
                                      :complete => 
"javascript:toggle(''main-query'');
                                      new
Effect.SlideDown(''main-query'',
{duration: .5})")

which is used to slide open a login window.  It works well, however 
depending on the page I have loaded I will sometimes get a NoMethod 
Error when the link is clicked.

Do I need to add a :controller => ''user'' to the :url line
somehow?  (If
so, I''m doing it wrong because that dosn''t work either).  How
does rails
interpret this?

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> Do I need to add a :controller => ''user'' to the :url
line somehow?  (If
> so, I''m doing it wrong because that dosn''t work either). 
How does rails
> interpret this?
Hello. If no controller specified Rails thinks that it should use
current controller. So, you have to specify your controller to access
it from any other place.

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Anton

This is what I thought, however when I specify to use the
''user''
controller I get an error.

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In fact,  If I specify the controller to be "application" I will be 
directed to the login page. And if I navigate to 
localhost:3000/user/login I am shown the login page, however when I 
generate a link with :controller set to ''user'' I only get a 
NoMethodError return.


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