Rails - Jul 2006 - 1.1.4: link_to with mixed case controller names "broken"?

I have a side navigation bar with links embedded in it like the 
following:

<%= link_to( ''Create Job'',
                  { :controller => ''eSimply'',
                    :action => ''upload'' }) %>

This link now shows a routing exception

Recognition failed for "/eSimply/upload"

This link has worked for over through Rails 1.1.3 a month.  I can only 
assume that the upgrade to Rails 1.1.4 broke it.

I saw another routing exception earlier.

QUESTION: In general, if I have a controller class named FirstLast in a 
file named first_last_controller.rb, should I expect that using 
:controller => ''firstLast'' should work in a link_to helper
method call
or not?

Or was I using some sort of undocumented functionality that got
"fixed"
in the framework?

QUESTION: I can fix this by referring to my controller in the same 
case/underscore scheme as is in it''s filename.  So in my example, I 
would refer to ''first_last''.  Is this how it''s always
supposed to have
worked?

Maybe I can help work on the regression tests for new releases of Rails 
;)...

Thanks,
Wes



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Wes Gamble wrote:
> I have a side navigation bar with links embedded in it like the 
> following:
> 
> <%= link_to( ''Create Job'',
>                   { :controller => ''eSimply'',
>                     :action => ''upload'' }) %>
> 
> This link now shows a routing exception
> 
> Recognition failed for "/eSimply/upload"
> 
> This link has worked for over through Rails 1.1.3 a month.  I can only 
> assume that the upgrade to Rails 1.1.4 broke it.
> 
> I saw another routing exception earlier.
> 
> QUESTION: In general, if I have a controller class named FirstLast in a 
> file named first_last_controller.rb, should I expect that using 
> :controller => ''firstLast'' should work in a link_to
helper method call
> or not?
> 
> Or was I using some sort of undocumented functionality that got
"fixed"
> in the framework?
> 
> QUESTION: I can fix this by referring to my controller in the same 
> case/underscore scheme as is in it''s filename.  So in my example,
I
> would refer to ''first_last''.  Is this how it''s
always supposed to have
> worked?
> 
> Maybe I can help work on the regression tests for new releases of Rails 
> ;)...
> 
> Thanks,
> Wes
Inside of routes.rb I can refer to my controller using "firstLast" but
not in link_to???

I don''t buy that inconsistency.

Wes


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Wes Gamble wrote:
> Wes Gamble wrote:
>> I have a side navigation bar with links embedded in it like the 
>> following:
>> 
>> <%= link_to( ''Create Job'',
>>                   { :controller => ''eSimply'',
>>                     :action => ''upload'' }) %>
>> 
>> This link now shows a routing exception
>> 
>> Recognition failed for "/eSimply/upload"
>> 
>> This link has worked for over through Rails 1.1.3 a month.  I can only 
>> assume that the upgrade to Rails 1.1.4 broke it.
>> 
>> I saw another routing exception earlier.
>> 
>> QUESTION: In general, if I have a controller class named FirstLast in a
>> file named first_last_controller.rb, should I expect that using 
>> :controller => ''firstLast'' should work in a
link_to helper method call
>> or not?
>> 
>> Or was I using some sort of undocumented functionality that got
"fixed"
>> in the framework?
>> 
>> QUESTION: I can fix this by referring to my controller in the same 
>> case/underscore scheme as is in it''s filename.  So in my
example, I
>> would refer to ''first_last''.  Is this how
it''s always supposed to have
>> worked?
>> 
>> Maybe I can help work on the regression tests for new releases of Rails
>> ;)...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Wes
> 
> Inside of routes.rb I can refer to my controller using
"firstLast" but
> not in link_to???
> 
> I don''t buy that inconsistency.
> 
> Wes
Sorry, let me be more plain.

What I''ve discovered is that you can refer to mixed case (two-word) 
controller names as "firstLast" inside the routes.rb file and they
will
map correctly, but not in the <%= link_to %> helper calls in RHTML 
(which I believe implies that they would also not work in a url_for 
call).

So, I will stick with the "first_last" convention even though it looks
like I''m having to know how Rails translates controller id symbols into
filenames.

Wes



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