This is really confusing to me- I have some code in a page on the site I'm working on that works absolutely fine on one version of the code and totally doesn't work on a newer version, in spite of the fact I can see no difference whatsoever either in the rhtml pages, the controller or any of the routing code. Right now I literally have no idea what the cause of this could be.
This code lists FAQ entries (in faq_controller.rb ):
<ul> <% @questionList.each do |question| %> <li><%=link_to(question.question, :action=>'show_question', :id=>question.id)%></li> <% end %> </ul>
On the current code it gives this output:
<li><a href="/faq/show_question/1">What is question 1?</a></li>
When I switch to the new codebase I get this:
<li><a href="/faq">What is question 1?</a></li>
Every single link I generate with link_to() is having it's path replaced by a link to "/faq" both in the current partial and in the layout.
I added some testing code to see what url_for is returning- <% logger.info "Test 1:"+url_for( :controller=>'faq', :action=>'show_question', :id=>11 ) logger.info "Test 2: "+@controller.send(:url_for, {:action=>'show_question', :id=>1}) %> The former gives /faq the latter gives /faq/show_question/1 but it doesn't seem normal to have to keep calling @controller.send to get my links working.
The other problem I have is that on my staging server and my local machine I don't have this problem- it only arises on the live deployment server when it is running in production mode, which means I can only test it for seconds at the time if I don't want to start seriously interfering with our users' experience.
Any guesses as to what might be causing this? It's driving me up the wall.
