Question

I used scaffold to build a table called “assets”. The files were created. The “rake db:create” worked fine. I added ” resources :assets” to my routes.rb file. I now get route errors. I ran “rake routes” and none of the routes for “assets” show up.

Is it bad to use a table name “assets”?
Or is something else wrong?

Answer 1

The asset pipeline uses /assets by default.

You can either change the default assets path by using this in application.rb:

config.assets.prefix = '/something-else'

Or change the routing for your assets resource by using:

resources :assets, :path => 'something-else'

edit: Actually the second option is probably the better choice because I forgot that asset_path is available by default and belongs to the asset pipeline. If you changed your default assets prefix and used asset_path @asset hoping to generate a link to assets#show then it might cause problems.

Use the :as option in your routes to change the path/url methods it generates.

resources :assets, :path => 'things', :as => 'things'

things_path results in /things and routes to the index action of the assets controller

thing_path @asset results in /things/:id and routes to the show action of the assets controller

etc.