RoR routing problem. Calling custom action, but getting redirected to show action
- by conorgil
I am working on a project in ruby on rails and I am having a very difficult time with a basic problem. I am trying to call a custom action in one of my controllers, but the request is somehow getting redirected to the default 'show' action and I cannot figure out why.
link in edit.html.erb:
<%= link_to 'Mass Text Entry', :action=>"create_or_add_food_item_from_text" %>
Error from development.log:
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound (Couldn't find Menu with ID=create_or_add_food_item_from_text): app/controllers/menus_controller.rb:20:in `show'
routes.rb file:
ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
map.resources :nutrition_objects
map.resources :preference_objects
map.resources :institutions
map.resources :locations
map.resources :menus
map.resources :food_items
map.resources :napkins
map.resources :users
map.resource :session, :controller => 'session'
map.root :controller=>'pages', :action=>'index'
map.about '/about', :controller=>'pages', :action=>'about'
map.contact '/contact', :controller=>'pages', :action=>'contact'
map.home '/home', :controller=>'pages', :action=>'index'
map.user_home '/user/home', :controller=>'rater', :action=>'index'
map.user_napkins '/user/napkins', :controller=>'rater', :action=>'view_napkins'
map.user_preferences '/user/preferences',:controller=>'rater', :action=>'preferences'
map.blog '/blog', :controller=>'pages', :action=>'blog'
map.signup '/signup', :controller=>'users', :action=>'new'
map.login '/login', :controller=>'session', :action=>'new'
map.logout '/logout', :controller=>'session', :action=>'destroy'
# Install the default routes as the lowest priority.
map.connect ':controller/:action'
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'
end
Menus_controller.rb:
class MenusController < ApplicationController
...
def create_or_add_food_item_from_text
end
...
end
create_or_add_food_item_from_text.html.erb simply has a div to show a form with a text box in it. I have the rest of my app working fine, but this is stumping me.
Any help is appreciated.