I've been banging my head against this for a while, and would love to see someone prove that I am just overlooking something simple.
I am trying to add a custom route to my RESTful resource. Because route is destructive, I want to use "POST" http method. If I hack my routes.rb to use GET, everything works just fine:
2 different server runs, only difference is get vs. post in my routes.rb
Started POST "/maps/1/reload_from_deamon" for 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 17 23:17:32 -0700 2010 ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches "/maps/1/ reload_from_deamon"):
Started GET "/maps/1/reload_from_deamon" for 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 17 23:26:53 -0700 2010 Processing by MapsController#reload_from_deamon as HTML
Here are my symptoms:
routes.rb resources :maps do member do post 'reload_from_deamon' end end # i've also tried # resources :maps do # post 'reload_from_deamon', :on => :member # and # match 'maps/:id/reload_from_deamon' => "maps#reload_from_deamon", :via => :post
MapsController def reload_from_deamon @map = Map.find(params[:id]) status = @map.reload_from_deamon redirect_to @map, :notice => status end
I generate my post form as following, this might be what is killing me. I've been unable to coerce form_for to generate the proper POST url for me.
<%= form_for @map, :url => map_path(@map)+ "/reload_from_deamon" do | f> -%> <button type="submit" class="button" onclick="document.location = '/ maps/1'"> <img alt="" src="/images/web-app-theme/icons/ database_refresh.png">Refresh readers from deamon </button> <% end -%>
Any ideas?
Aleks Aleks
