why don't these routes work

rubyonrails-talk
1

I have this in my routes.db, in its entirety

map.resources :posts, :users map.connect '', :controller => 'posts'

map.connect 'users/:page', :controller => 'users', :action => 'index', :requirements => { :page => /\d+/}

map.connect 'users/:id/:page', :requirements => { :id => /[a-z]+/i, :page => /\d+/}, :controller => 'users', :action => 'show'

map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format' map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'

/users/admin/2 goes to page 2 of the user 'admin' as expected. and / users go to the users index page.

however, /users/2 shows user with id#2, and not page 2 of the users index. I have in my user model

def to_param self.name end

and name is never all digits.

seems like it should work. why doesn't it? thanks.

2

Well map.resources :users will add a route mapping users/2 to the user with id 2. Since it's higher up in your routes file it will get priority

Fred.

3

Moving map.resources :users down below didn't help. in fact, taking it out altogether didn't help. users/2 still shows user with id#2. oddly enough, it still understands users/admin. I cleared cache and restarted server.

4

D'OH! I'm an idiot. there's a map.resources :users right at the top which I did not see b/c of all the comments. it's all good now. for those interested, here's my routes which works well with will_paginate and probably other pagination

# posts is my default controller map.connect '', :controller => 'posts'

map.connect ':page', :action => 'index', :controller => 'posts', :requirements => { :page => /\d+/}, :page => nil

map.connect ':controller/:page', :action => 'index', :requirements => { :page => /\d+/}

# needs to be adjusted if your ID is all numeric map.connect ':controller/:id/:page', :action => 'show', :requirements => { :id => /[a-z]+/i, :page => /\d+/}, :page => nil

map.connect ':controller/:action/:id/:page', :requirements => { :page => /\d+/}, :page => nil

map.resources :posts, :inkers

map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format' map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'