Question

I need a bit of help with converting routing from Rails 2 to Rails 3.

In app/views/layouts/application.html.erb, I have:

<%= link_to "Reports", reports_path %><br>

There is a ReportsController, and in app/views/reports/index.html.erb, I have this:

<%= link_to "Clients With Animals", :action => "getAnimals", :controller => "clients" %>

Then, in config/routes.rb, I have this (Rails 3)

match '/reports' => "reports#index"
match '/clients/getAnimals', to: "clients#getAnimals"

I get this error when I click on the “getAnimals” link on the reports page:

ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound in ClientsController#show
Couldn't find Client with id=getAnimals

I don’t want “getAnimals” to be the ID – I want it to be the action, instead.

How do I do that?

Answer 1

Assuming you also have a resources :clients entry, you want to make sure match '/clients/getAnimals', to: "clients#getAnimals" is above it (Rails will match whatever it hits first).

However, the better way may be to put it in the resource:

resources :clients do
  get 'getAnimals', :on => :collection
end