Question

I want to show a simple HTML template, so I added a new empty action to my controller:

def calulator
end

And created the view calculator.html.erb . Then added a link to it:

<%= link_to 'Calculator', {:controller => "mycontroller", :action => "calculator"} %>

When I click it my log shows the following error:

ActionController::UnknownAction (No action responded to show. Actions: calculator, create, destroy, edit, index, new, and update):

Why is looking for a “show” action ? I have map.resources for the controller, as I done it with scaffolding

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You need to add a custom route pointing to the action ‘calculator’.
Something like this:

map.connect 'mycontroller/calculator', :controller => 'mycontroller', :action => 'calculator'