Rails - Mar 2007 - link_to_remote url isn't recognized like link_to urls are?

I''m starting to learn about the Ajax support in Rails.

I had a link that looked like this:

link_to "View Game Details", admin_game_path(@game)

and it worked great.  (I''m using map.resources :games, :path_prefix
=>
''admin'', name_prefix => ''admin_'')

Anyway, I wanted to try to learn some .rjs, so after writing my .rjs
script, I tried to invoke it by changing the link to this:

link_to_remote "View Game Details In The Div Below", :url =>
admin_game_path(@game)

but clicking the link didn''t seem to do anything.  Checking the
development.log file, I see that it''s because the route isn''t
recognized - it hit a route that was lower down in my routes.rb file,
which eventually caused a 500.

Without bothering everyone with my entire routes file (though I can if
needed), since I''m fairly new to Ajax, what''s the  best way to
go
about debugging this?  I''ve done a View Source in the browser and the
generated url looks fine to me.  So I have no idea why the routing
mechanism wouldn''t find the right match, like it does with a regular
link_to.

Is there something I can try in script/console to figure it out?  Or
something like that?

Thanks!
Jeff


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On Mar 23, 9:41 am, "Jeff"
<cohen.j...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''m starting to learn about the Ajax support in Rails.
>
> I had a link that looked like this:
>
> link_to "View Game Details", admin_game_path(@game)
>
> and it worked great.  (I''m using map.resources :games,
:path_prefix =>
> ''admin'', name_prefix => ''admin_'')
>
> Anyway, I wanted to try to learn some .rjs, so after writing my .rjs
> script, I tried to invoke it by changing the link to this:
>
> link_to_remote "View Game Details In The Div Below", :url =>
> admin_game_path(@game)
>
> but clicking the link didn''t seem to do anything.  Checking the
> development.log file, I see that it''s because the route
isn''t
> recognized - it hit a route that was lower down in my routes.rb file,
> which eventually caused a 500.
Fixed.  In case anyone else runs into this scenario, I''ll describe
what I did to solve it.

I commented out my catch-all route, and that yielded a more
informational error message, which was there was no route matching /
admin/games/5, :method => ''POST''.  Turns out the default
method for
link_to_remote is POST, not GET.  So I had to change my code to this:

link_to_remote "View Game Details In The Div Below", :url =>
admin_game_path(@game), :method => :get

and then, lo and behold, my show action got called in the controller,
and I can render the rjs using a respond_to block.

I''m still not 100% clear on why the POST didn''t match a route
-
shouldn''t it have matched the create action of my controller?  That
still wouldn''t have been what I wanted, but it would have given me a
much better clue.

Jeff


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