Question

I’m confused about routing in rails. I have custom actions on a controller called UsersController, such as “login”.

In my routes.rb if I do:

resource :users do
  collection do
    get  'login'
    post 'login'
    get  'logout'
  end
end

I can link to the action login of UsersController no problem but then going to localhost:3000/users gives me the error:

Couldn’t find User without an ID

But if I do

resources :users

localhost:3000/users gives me the expected listing.

I tried to put both but only the first version that is present in the file will work as expected.

How can I add routes to the default ones?

Answer 1

You have a typo in your routes.

Try resourcesnot resource. (resourcedoesn’t create the #index action)

Take a look to the manual