Use rake routes
from any directory in your Rails app to list your routes. I've found it a big help, especially for understanding what's going on behind the scenes. Fred On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Chris Mear <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 August 2010 19:45, Carl Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am walking through the tutorial in Agile web development with rails > > book 3rd edition. > > > > When I try to access the url http://localhost:3000/products I get this > > error > > > > No route matches "/products" with {:method=>:get} > > > > Which - when I look at the products controller I do not understand how > > the url in the book is correct? > > > > In the previous chapter I created a Say controller which had a hello > > action. But, the products controller has index, show, new, edit, create, > > update and destroy. > > > > I tried /products/new and products/index and still nothing... > > > > What am I missing here? > > The 'No route matches...' error usually suggests that something is > missing in your config/routes.rb file. At this point in the tutorial, > you should have: > > map.resources :products > > somewhere in your config/routes.rb. Do you? > > ( This is a bit hard to diagnose, as you've noticed, because the > 'resource'-style routing adds some standard mappings that aren't like > the explicit /controller/action mapping you were previously introduced > to. In this case, behind the scenes, the 'map.resources :products' > adds a route that maps /products to ProductsController#index. You can > read more about this in the Rails Routing guide [1]. It seems weird > and magical at first, but it'll soon become second nature, trust me! ) > > Chris > > [1] > http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#restful-routing-the-rails-default > > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://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.
