Question

I am pretty new to rails and basically I want to make a user registration form.

I am currently using rails 3.2.3

Basically I want to make basic routes like user/register on top of basic REST route for user.

Here are my routes.rb

resources :user do
  collection do
    get 'register'
  end
end

And here are my rake routes:

     register_user_index GET    /user/register(.:format)   user#register
     user_index GET    /user(.:format)            user#index
                POST   /user(.:format)            user#create
       new_user GET    /user/new(.:format)        user#new
      edit_user GET    /user/:id/edit(.:format)   user#edit
           user GET    /user/:id(.:format)        user#show
                PUT    /user/:id(.:format)        user#update
                DELETE /user/:id(.:format)        user#destroy

From my understanding, since register user is on top of show, it should match with register first before going to show.

However, when I try to do localhost:3000/user/register, it gives me this error:

No route matches {:action=>”show”, :controller=>”user”}

Can somebody help me with this?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

(I would make this a comment, but I need the markup for the code example.)

I tried your routes using Rails 3.1.4 and it worked like you expected.

I notice you are using a string instead of a symbol. The more standard way is:

resources :users do
  collection do
    get :register
  end
end