acts_as_taggable issue

rubyonrails-talk
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This won't post with a full code paste, so I've got to link it to another forum where I've posted it.

http://www.railsweenie.com/forums/1/topics/1053

Can't get the acts_as_taggable plugin to play nice. Works in console, not in teh view.

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You're not showing your routes.rb, so I can't be sure, but it looks like you need to setup a route for this...

= in config/routes.rb

map.connect '/elements/tagged/:tag_name', :controller => 'elements', :action => 'tagged'

= end

Alternatively, you could use params[:id] instead of params[:tag_name] in line 4 of your controller, but changing the route will make it clearer that you're not expecting a numeric id there.

-JD Harrington

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Thanks JD. I actually do have this, but I don't call the controller

  map.connect ':controller/tagged/:tag_name', :action => :tagged

Also, this could cause a lot of issue - I'm using RC1 for 1.2 and everything is restful.

So in trying to go for semantic urls, is

http://tld.com/elements/tagged/tag_name

not a good way to go? Here is the full routes file with all comments removed:

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|   map.resources :element_types   map.resources :elements

  map.connect ':controller/tagged/:tag_name', :action => :tagged

  map.connect '', :controller => "element"

  map.connect ':controller/service.wsdl', :action => 'wsdl'

  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'   map.connect ':controller/:action/:id' end

I appreciate the help, John

4

AH! using the symbol for :tagged in the routes breaks it. Not sure why. But it does. Changing the route to

map.connect ':controller/tagged/:tag_name', :action => 'tagged'

made it work

5

Interesting. Glad it's working for you now.

-JD