There's a punctuation error in your pasted example. I'll let you find it. Next time, show us the actual code you are working with.
On Sep 7, 6:46 pm, Rick R <[email protected]> wrote: > Man, as a newbie as soon as I deviate just an inch from the hello > world stuff I'm in all sorts of hurt:)... > > I have a controller (lets call it GroceryStoreController) that has an > 'add' method (It can be foobar for all I care at the moment, just > something that isn't the conventional ones produced from scaffolding > and that you get mappings to automatically from 'resources' definition > in Routes.) > > I now have a list of grocery store items and I want to provide an > 'add' link next to each item. Hitting the add link should reach the > "add" method in the controller (passing along the id of the grocery > item.) > > This should be so simple, yet I can't seem to get anything to work. I > don't think I can just use my own xyz_path in link_to since I think > that's just a convention for the built in resources (edit ,etc.) eg: > > link_to 'add', add_grocery_store_path(item) #causes undefined path error > > I even tried doing things a way that docs say was and older way?: > > //sorry pasting from real code I was working with (results after you > do a search)... not grocery_store, but same idea... > > @meters.each do |m| > .... > link_to 'add', controller => "meters_search", :action => "add", :id => m > > The above creates a link but it looks really bad: > > <a > href="/meters_search/add?%23%3CMetersSearchController%3A0x00000102e90c48%3E > =meters_search&id=1">add</a> > > and when you click on it it's trying to find the 'show' method (which > I don't have in this controller, for now just have index, and add > until I get this working) so it breaks. > > Maybe it's my Routes that is a problem, and I've been trying different > things there as well. Relevant routes for this example I have as: > > resources :meters_search > get "meters_search/add" => 'meters_search#add' > > [ side not for any help in my learning: > I'm also am trying to following the docs for > link_tohttp://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper.html#... > and it's extremely confusing. It shows some options but then also > mentions see options available by looking at "url_for" so when I click > on that > linkhttp://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper.html#... > I see seven options listed on the page ( anchor, only_path, etc.) yet > they keep showing examples of options like :action, :controller yet I > don't see them shown anywhere in the API as valid options? ] -- 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.
