Question

I have the following code in my routes.rb:

match 'users/linkedin' => "users#linkedin", :as => :register_linkedin

My expectation is that when I have a redirect_to register_linkedin_url, I will be redirected to domain.com/users/linkedin.

That should then result in Controller Users with action linkedin being executed.

This is what I get in the logs:

Redirected to
http://localhost:3000/users/linkedin
Completed 302 Found in 28333ms

Started GET “/users/linkedin” for
127.0.0.1 at Thu Apr 14 01:12:01 -0700 2011 Processing by
UsersController#show as HTML
Parameters: {“id”=>”linkedin”}
Completed in 94ms

This is what I get in ‘rake routes’:

register_linkedin
/users/linkedin(.:format)
{:action=>”linkedin”,
:controller=>”users”}

So the routes aren’t working properly. How do I address this?

Answer 1

it’s because you’re probably using resources :users in your routes

if you want to keep your show action, and use the linkedin part too, put your custom route before the resources :users

doing that, routing will match linkedin if the request is specific (users/linkedin) and if not, will continue searching and the next one will be show of course

read more about routing in general here