"generate scaffold" generated plural name in routes.rb -- why?

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Hi,

I ran:     http://localhost:3000/ I got:     Routing Error     No route matches "/" with {:method=>:get}

I had just run:     ruby script/generate scaffold vendor nickname:string qbname:string     rename public\index.html to --index.html

I listed Config\routes.rb:     ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|        map.resources :vendors

I thought the plural "vendors" was odd, so I changed it to singular: app ran fine.

Why did the plural version get generated? I'm running Rails 2.3.5 on WinXP-Pro/SP3

Thanks in Advance Richard

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When mapping resources you use the pluralized version, so you need to switch it back to vendors. You also need to map the root, other wise localhost:3000/ will not have a route defined. See this commented line in routes.rb

You can have the root of your site routed with map.root – just remember to delete public/index.html.

map.root :controller => “welcome”

-Jer

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Thanks for your response Jeremy,

Here's what I know now. With http://localhost:3000/ and the 2nd line of routes.db successively:    map.root :controller => "vendors" # undefined method `vendor_path'    map.root :controller => "users" # Works    map.resources :users # No route matches "/" with {:method=>:get}    map.resources :vendors # No route matches "/" with {:method=>:get}

Also, the following both work, seemingly regardless of what routes are available     http://localhost:3000/users     http://localhost:3000/vendors

My next effort is to add a Home page with a side-bar of links to other pages and kill all the root/resource entries except Home itself as the default.

Yet I wonder why controller => "vendors" fails despite the fact that controller => "users" work, when I thing I created them in the same manner. Do you have any idea? I expect there's not enough info to let anyone to make a useful guess, so I'll just keep working to eliminate the need for routes to vendors and users,

Again, thanks for your insights, Richard