What you want is a collection, not a member:
map.resource :species, :collection => { :list => :get }
Also, instead of using url_for, you could use list_species_path( :sort
=> key, :page => nil )
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:40 PM, amrita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just defined a new controller action "list" for one of my
> controllers, let's call it "species". To routes.rb, I added the
> following entry:
>
> map.resource :species, :member => { :list => :get }
>
> I have a helper method in which I use url_for as follows:
>
> url_for(:controller => 'species', :action => 'list', :params =>
> params.merge({:sort => key, :page => nil}))
>
> When I call this helper method from the view, it completely bypasses
> the action in the generated URL. I get a URL as follows:
>
> http://myserver.mydomain.org:8080/species?sort=sortparam
>
> What I expect to get is a URL as follows:
>
> http://myserver.mydomain.org:8080/species/list?sort=sortparam
>
> I did a `rake routes | grep list` and I do get the following two
> lines:
>
> list_species GET /species/
> list
> {:controller=>"species", :action=>"list"}
> formatted_list_species GET /species/
> list.:format
> {:controller=>"species", :action=>"list"}
>
> Could someone please point out what needs to be corrected for url_for
> to work properly? Is url_for not finding a route for
> controller=species and action=list or is there some other problem?
>
>
> Many thanks!
> Amrita
> >
>
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