Question

I am trying this code in my application layout. its a “user navigation” bar at the top of the screen.

<%= link_to "My Profile", edit_profile_path, :class => "user_nav_button" %>

I am getting

No route matches {:action=>”edit”, :controller=>”profiles”}

However, rake routes shows:

edit_profile GET /profiles/:id/edit(.:format) profiles#edit

If i directly go to /profiles/1/edit my view works, and the link_to shows……….

I think it has something to do with not getting the params properly… I am using devise/cancan/rolify and current_user.id is my param.

Answer 1

That path method call requires an instance of the object. Otherwise Rails doesn’t know which user profile you want to edit and it doesn’t guess.

edit_profile_path(@user) # Where @user is an instance of a User model from your controller