Got it. Understand the points on not using the render in the show action. Thanks for the help, I appreciate it.
On Feb 20, 6:43 pm, Phil Crissman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:35 PM, T <[email protected]> wrote: > > In this case the view I want to render is not one of the routes. I > > already have a show/edit/index view, I now need another one that is > > specialized and this may not be the last one I need. > > If you want to link_to the way you're doing, it will need to be a route; you > can add routes other than the standard RESTful set. See the routing guide in > guides.rubyonrails.org. > > Yes, you _could_ one off 'render :template => "view" if params[:id] == > "view" ', (or something like this, in the show action) but I really would > discourage this sort of thing; your controller will become very hard to > maintain. > > Phil > > > > > > > On Feb 20, 6:18 pm, Phil Crissman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Phil > > > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM, T <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have a resource 'users'. the index page has a 'link_to' tag I > > > > created on the line item level for a specific view. The link_to that > > > > is frustrating me in particular says: <%= link_to 'View', :controller > > > > => 'users', :action => 'view' %> > > > > > What's happening is that it's going to the Users controller and > > > > attempting to execute the 'show' action (with 'view' passed in as the > > > > id). But i am specifically requesting it to use the link_to to go to > > > > the 'view' action. I've tried routing to another controller as well > > > > and that doesn't change it at all. > > > > It will be a lot easier to just use the name of the route, eg, =link_to > > > "View", view_user_path(user) (or whatever the name of the route is; you > > can > > > always find it in the output of rake routes. > > > > > This is a rails 2.3.8 app if that matters in evaluating my question/ > > > > problem. Any help would be really appreciated. As an aside, I've > > > > even tried hi-jacking the 'show' action by looking for a params id = > > > > 'view' and it fails before it even gets there (so assuming the route > > > > is smart enough to expect a non-string value). > > > > > -- > > > > 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. > > > -- > > 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. -- 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.
