Question

I have been following a tutorial @ Noupe with the intention of learning Rails. It’s going well and the app works, but I gather it was written for Rails 2, so there are some deprecated pieces of code used.

While I have resolved most of these, I have one remaining problem with the routing. The Rails 2 code in the tutorial is:

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
map.resources :posts
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'
end

This works fine, but it is the old code. I have attempted to rewrite the code as follows:

Twitter::Application.routes do
resources :posts
match ':controller/:action/:id'
match ':controller/:action/:id.:format'
end

This results in an error when I attempt to visit http://localhost:3000/posts –

Routing Error
No route matches “/posts”

Can anyone suggest where I am going wrong? I did notice that I get a compiler error if I write twitter in the first line (instead of Twitter) – since my app is named twitter, I thought this might be the issue, but it does not seem to be.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

It seems like you are missing the call to the method draw. Try to change the first line to the following:

Twitter::Application.routes.draw do