similar to: link_to with resource routes in helper file?

I''ve got the following in config\routes.rb: map.resources :users In app\views\shared\_menu.erb, I''ve got: Please sign in <%= link_to "here", :controller=>"user", :action=>"sign_in" -%> In app\controllers\users_controller.rb def sign_in end When I run the application, I crash with: Routing Error No route matches

I''m having trouble trying to get this to work. How the heck do you get a polymorphic controller to work? Especially integrating it with a view? Let''s say that we have shows, and episodes, then comments. A show has many episodes, an episode has many comments. the route is /shows/1/episodes/1/ Now to add a comment to that episode, how would I do it? Let''s say that the

Hello. I''ve added some routes : map.news ''news'', :controller => :News, :action =>:index map.login ''login'', :controller => :Login , :action =>:index When I go to /news or /login before adding the routes, it works well. When I add the routes and clik on the link that goes to /news or / login, I got a 500 internal error with this :

Right now in my view, I have a whole HUGE clump of <% if current_user %> and then <% if current_admin %> and then <% if current_teacher %> and then all that other stuff in my view. I have a ginourmous chunk of if and else statements in my views... is there a way to make it prettier? The if and else''s almost all have the same functions, expect for some minor changes.

I find manually accessing the router to be quite ugly below. Is there a more direct way to access it? module ApplicationHelper def menu_item text, url = nil routes = ActionController::Routing::Routes url = if url if url.is_a? String url else routes.generate url end else routes.generate :controller

I''ve got two entities created by scaffolding: Expense & Vendor In Expense#new there''s a form with a Vendors-drop-down and a NewVendor- button. The latter button brings up Vendor#new. The Create button in Vendor#new brings up Vendor#show with Edit & Back links. I want to append a third link conditionally to Vendor#show: if the Expense#new form led to the Vendor#show

Hello Rspec Users, I was wondering how you specify a nested resource in cucumber. So for example: Given I have a blogpost titled Question For Nice Rspec Users When I am on the list of comments for Question For Nice Rspec Users Then I should see "Answer" Now, as one might expect, blogpost has_many :comments, so my question is this: How should I write the "when-case" for

So, i''m facing issues with encoding, since I need to write an application in portuguese-brazilian. This is the error i''m getting: "incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT" The curious thing is that i have a few other views with "special" characters, like Á or Ç, and all of them works. I have saved this view using the UTF-8 char encoding and

I''m trying to install Rails 3 on a brand new MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.3, Ruby 1.8.7, and Rails 2.3.5 and I''m wondering if I''ve hosed myself. So far, I''ve run these commands: $ gem update --system $ gem install arel tzinfo builder memcache-client rack rack-test rack- mount erubis mail text-format thor bundler i18n $ gem install rails --pre However, when I

I have a rails 3.1 app and I am curious how you would do something. I have a link_to remote option true button <%=link_to "Add to your Favorites", add_favorite_url(movie_star),:class=>"btn small primary" %> I need to submit this to the users controller via ajax do some stuff then set the button to say that the favorite has been added. Can you please tell me how

I want to be able to change one attribute of a link_to to be what is the current selection of the collection_select. And needless to say I can''t quite figure it out. app/views/tasks/show.html.erb Who would you like to assign this task to?<br /> <%= link_to ''Myself'', :controller => ''task_queues'', :task_id => @task.id, :action =>

I have a resource ''users''. the index page has a ''link_to'' tag I created on the line item level for a specific view. The link_to that is frustrating me in particular says: <%= link_to ''View'', :controller => ''users'', :action => ''view'' %> What''s happening is that it''s going to

Hello, I would like to have a link_to automatically populate a field in the form that it is linking to. For example (excuse my silly words, im trying to make a point) <%= link_to "Add a COOL Post", new_post_path, :howcoolisit => ''COOL'' %> <%= link_to "Add a NOTCOOL Post", new_post_path, :howcoolisit => ''NOTCOOL'' %> Then,

Hi, How can we trigger a JavaScript built in function from a <%= link_to %> ie. i have the below statement in my view. I want to invoke a JavaScript function on "MouseOver" of this below text (''TestingMouseOverEvents''). <%= link_to "TestingMouseOverEvents" , :controller => "login", :action => "logout"%> Note: The

routes.rb map.connect '':controller/:action/:id/:draw_id'', :controller => "admin", :action => "edit_position" In a view I have: <%= link_to "#{@draw.positions[0].team}", { :controller => :admin, :action => :edit_position, :id =>@draw.positions[0].id, :draw_id =>

Hello All, I have a link. Which I want to open as a new window :- <%= link_to "Google", "https://www.google.com", :popup => [''new_window_name'',''toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes''] %> But it is opening in the same page.... Any suggestions how to do it ?? Even hover will be

I want my helpers to generate paths using a superclass instead of the subclasses. Assuming I have Owner and Member that both inherit from User, rails will use the current objects class name when generating paths: Let''s say current_user is a mod: <%= link_to current_user.name, current_user %> will generate "/mod/:id". I want to force it to generate

i have a link where it has to call a method defin in todoscontroller named say_when but show is called <td><%= link_to ''Say when'', todo, :action => :say_when , :remote => true %></td> class TodosController < ApplicationController # GET /todos # GET /todos.xml def index @todos = Todo.all respond_to do |format| format.html #

Hi, rails 3.2.8 I must be missing something basic (and it''s been driving me mad) because I am trying to send one additional data attribute to my controller from a link, but I can''t seem to get it into the params received by the controller. I have looked around and found answers, but none seem to affect my links. I''ve set up a dummy app with a home page and a single

Hello All, How can I add a popup in link_to image_tag? I am trying as :- <%= link_to image_tag(@user.avatar.url(:small)), ''/users/edit'', :popup=>[''original_image'', ''height=700,width=900''] %> It goes to the edit page. But it doesn''t opens popup. Is this the correct way to call a popup? How can I achieve this? Thanks,