Sorry for such a basic question... total neophyte here! I''ve put a new action "foobar" in my "things" actioncontroller. I want to link to this action in a linkto function... so: <% link_to "go to foobar", :action=>"foobar" %>. The html href produced is /things/foobar Problem is the default routing interprets this as being routed to the "things" controller, "show" action, with "id" = "foobar". How can I override this default interpretation and create a link to my custom "foobar" action? thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Hi Les, I had this problem recently and I think I can help. It turns out that you have to map every new controller that you create in your config/routes.rb. Open it and include a line like this in the map block but above all other lines (order matters here): map.resources :model_name_in_plural, :collection => {:action1 =>:get, :action2 => :get, ..., :actionN => :get} example: map.resources :clients, :collection => {:search => :get, :upgrade => :get} I hope I has of help. On Jul 6, 4:47 pm, Les Nightingill <rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Sorry for such a basic question... total neophyte here! > > I''ve put a new action "foobar" in my "things" actioncontroller. I want > to link to this action in a linkto function... so: <% link_to "go to > foobar", :action=>"foobar" %>. The html href produced is /things/foobar > > Problem is the default routing interprets this as being routed to the > "things" controller, "show" action, with "id" = "foobar". > > How can I override this default interpretation and create a link to my > custom "foobar" action? > > thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Thanks for the suggestion, Abel, that wasn''t quite the solution that worked for me, since I was just adding an action to an existing controller, vs. adding a new controller. The solution turned out to be achieved by playing with the sequence of the mappings in routes.rb. I understand why the order is important but not why it solved this particular problem. Abel, your suggestion led me to the right solultion, thanks Les -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---