Can't get to an action in a RESTful controller

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Folks,

I am using the restful_authentication plugin. This creates the users controller which is declared as a resource in routes.rb as below

  map.resources :users

Now in the UsersController I have created an action to resetpwd that I am trying to get to from the login page when the user clicks "forgot password". However, when I do that the log file tells me that the call to /users/resetpwd gets resolved to the "show" action of the controller with id="resetpwd" as below

Processing UsersController#show (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-04-30 21:05:13) [GET]   Parameters: {"id"=>"resetpwd"}   SQL (0.0ms) SET NAMES 'utf8'   SQL (0.0ms) SET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL=0

In the script/console when I list all the routes, here is a subset of what I get

GET /users/:id/ {:controller=>"users", :action=>"show"} GET /users/:id.:format/ {:controller=>"users", :action=>"show"}

That may explain why /users/resetpwd is mapping to the show action in UsersController because "resetpwd" is being taken as the :id for the GET action on /users. But when I run a recognize_path command as below in script/console it seems to resolve correctly

rs.recognize_path "/users/resetpwd"

=> {:controller=>"users", :action=>"resetpwd"}

I have two questions.

1. Why does recognize_path resolve to action "resetpwd" while when the code runs it resolves to action "show" with id="resetpwd"

2. How can I make the code resolve to action=> "resetpwd" in controller => users?

Thanks for your help. -S

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I'm not familiar with recognize_path, so I can't really speak to that.

If you want to add an route to the set that's generated for you by map.resources, see here:

So, in your case, you'd probably edit routes.rb and change your users resource to:

map.resources :users, :collection => { :resetpwd => :get }

Then Rails would map '/users/resetpwd' to resetpwd_users_url

Chris

Sj Tib wrote:

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Are you sure it is not correctly going to UsersController#resetpwd then getting redirected by the action?