Hey Niels, Thank you for excellent guidance. I read about routing but it's taking me a long time to actually internalize this stuff. Your analysis gives me hope!
Best wishes, Richard On Jul 5, 10:42 pm, Niels Meersschaert <[email protected]> wrote: > map.resources creates routes for the typical CRUD operations. Since you are > adding an additional operation, you could revise your mapping to this: > > map.resources :users, :collection => {:sign_in => :get} > > This creates awkward route names & feels ugly as you are mucking with a > resource controller's routes. It's probably better to do: > > map.sign_in "/sign_in", :controller => "users", :action => "sign_in" > > However, as logging in is really a session issue, rather than a user concern, > it would be even better to do something like this: > > map.sign_in "/sign_in", :controller => "sessions", :action => "new" > > Then move your sign_in method from users_controller to sessions_controller > > You will want a file like /path_to_controller_views/sign_in.html.erb to > handle it (assuming you are using erb). Replace path_to_controller_views > with either /app/views/users or /app/views/sessions as appropriate. > > Niels > > On Jul 5, 2010, at 10:02 PM, RichardOnRails wrote: > > > I've got the following in config\routes.rb: > > map.resources :users > > > In app\views\shared\_menu.erb, I've got: > > Please sign in <%= link_to > > "here", :controller=>"user", :action=>"sign_in" -%> > > > In app\controllers\users_controller.rb > > def sign_in > > end > > > When I run the application, I crash with: > > Routing Error > > No route matches "/user/sign_in" with {:method=>:get} > > > I presume I should add "def sign_in; [snip]; end" somewhere in: > > app\views\users > > > But where, so as to satisfy the Rails routing scheme? > > Is sufficient information provided above to answer this question? > > I'm running Rails 2.3.5 > > > Thanks in Advance, > > Richard > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
