Problem with new action

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I'm having issues submitting a form to the create action.

In routes I have

map.resources :encryption_passphrases

This resource is not using an ActiveRecord model, so I can't use the form_for method in the view.

In app/views/encryption_passphrases/new.html.erb I have this:

<% form_tag(encryption_passphrases_url, :method => "post") do |f| %>   <p>     <%= password_field_tag :encryption_passphrase %>   </p>   <p>     <%= submit_tag "Create" %>   </p> <% end %>

This results in the following html:

<form action="http://localhost:3000/encryption_passphrases&quot; method="post"><div style="margin:0;padding:0"><input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="a938464567fec5b2c2d90421275beb83776a2ae7" /></div>

  <p>     <input id="encryption_passphrase" name="encryption_passphrase" type="password" />   </p>

  <p>     <input name="commit" type="submit" value="Create" />   </p> </form>

When I hit the Create button, I get this error on the resulting page:

"Unknown action No action responded to index"

I don't know why it's going to the get http method because it says post in the form tag.

Can anybody tell me how to fix this?

Thanks,

Jonathan

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Try running "rake routes" to see if the URL you get is recognized as a resource url. Maybe the :controller/:action/:id route outranks your resources route. The resources route should be specified higher up in the file.

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Christina,

Thanks for the response.

This is what my rake routes command outputs. The encryption_passphrases resource is at the top of everything in the application. The :controller/:action/:id route is at the very bottom.

              encryption_passphrases GET / encryption_passphrases {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"index"}     formatted_encryption_passphrases GET / encryption_passphrases.:format {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"index"}                                      POST / encryption_passphrases {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"create"}                                      POST / encryption_passphrases.:format {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"create"}            new_encryption_passphrase GET /encryption_passphrases/ new {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"new"} formatted_new_encryption_passphrase GET /encryption_passphrases/ new.:format {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"new"}           edit_encryption_passphrase GET / encryption_passphrases/:id/edit {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"edit"} formatted_edit_encryption_passphrase GET / encryption_passphrases/:id/edit.:format {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"edit"}                encryption_passphrase GET / encryption_passphrases/:id {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"show"}      formatted_encryption_passphrase GET / encryption_passphrases/:id.:format {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"show"}                                      PUT / encryption_passphrases/:id {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"update"}                                      PUT / encryption_passphrases/:id.:format {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"update"}                                      DELETE / encryption_passphrases/:id {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"destroy"}                                      DELETE / encryption_passphrases/:id.:format {:controller=>"encryption_passphrases", :action=>"destroy"} . . . {other controllers} .                                             /:controller/:action/:id                                             /:controller/:action/:id.:format

I've worked around the issue by causing the index action to call the create method, but I'd rather have it work as designed...

Any other suggestions?

Thanks, Jonathan