I am working on a rails application and added a simple login system according to a book.

I created the controller admin: rails generate controller admin login logout index

It added the following routes to routes.db

  get "admin/login"
  get "admin/logout"
  get "admin/index"

1. I can got to http://localhost:3000/admin/login there is no problem at all.
2. But when I try to login I get: No route matches "/admin/login"!

Now, the first confusing part is that the "login" method of my AdminController is not executed at all.

The second confusing part is that this code works like a charm - redirects everything to /admin/login:

  def authorize
    unless User.find_by_id(session[:user_id]) 
      flash[:notice] = "you need to login" 
      redirect_to :controller => 'admin', :action => 'login'
    end
  end

Sidenotes:

• I restarted the server several times.
• I tried a different browser - to be sure there is no caching problem.