Please help with a routing problem

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi All

I'm having some issues with the following routes problem.

The routes.rb file ...   map.resources :users   map.connect '/users/view_payments/:user_id', :controller => 'users', :action => 'view_payments'

The users_controller.rb file ...   def view_payments     @user = User.find[:params[:user_id]]     @payments = @user.payments   end

The routes list from a rake routes ...      /users/view_payments/:user_id {:controller=>"users", :action=>"view_payments"}

The .../views/users/view_payments.html.erb file ...    <%= link_to 'View Payments', :controller => 'users', :action => 'view_payments', :user_id => @user.id %>

Then the URL generated from the link_to ...    http://localhost:3000/users/view_payments/2

But this returns a 404 error

Any help/ideas appreciated

Cheers Adrian

2

Firstly have you restarted the server, this has bitten me more than a few times. Otherwise try putting the more specific route first in the routes file.

3

You need to define a member resource on the map.resources :users. For
more information see the guide on routing on http://guides.rubyonrails.org

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try map.resources :users, :member => {:view_payments => :get}

should work.

5

As others have said, you just need to define the custom action in your routes.

But I might suggest a more restful approach:

map.resources :users, :has_many => :payments

Then you can use links like

http://localhost:3000/users/2/payments

This calls the index action of a Payments controller. You can look at params[:user_id] to know which user is involved. This way you don't need any custom actions.

Just a thought.

Jeff switchingtorails.com

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Thanks to all who responded.

I decided to go with the more RESTful approach:

map.resources :users, :has_many => :payments

and use the index action on the payments controller.

Cheers Adrian