Question

Hi I have a class ‘listings_controller’. I added a method ‘list’ in there as follows:

def index     
    @listings = Listing.order(:name)  
end  


def list  
    render :text=>(@listings).to_json  
end  

Here is my routes.rb file

root to: ‘listings#index’, as: ‘listings’
resources :listings do
collection do
get :around
end
end

match ':controller(/:action(/:id))(.:format)'  

When I type this into my browser:

http://localhost:3000/listings/list

I hope to see the JSON object and its contents in the browser. However, thats not happening. I was wondering if someone could assist me in diagnosing what Im doing wrong.

The webrick server says the following:

Started GET "/listings/list" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-04-18 11:56:25 -0700  
Processing by ListingsController#show as HTML  
Parameters: {"id"=>"list"}  
Listing Load (0.3ms)  SELECT "listings".* FROM "listings" WHERE "listings"."id" = ? LIMIT 1  [["id", "list"]]  
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 2ms  

ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound (Couldn’t find Listing with id=list):
app/controllers/listings_controller.rb:104:in `show’

Answer 1

Add the following in your routes.rb:

match 'listings/list' => 'listings#list'

Or the shorthand:

get 'listings/list'

At the moment it is being routed to the show method.