Question

I’m new to Rails and currently using Rails 3, so please bear with me. I have a basic app, with a basic scaffolded controller/model e.g Contacts.

Amongst the methods for Show/Edit etc.. i have added a method called newcontacts (i have also added a newcontacts.html.erb), which will eventually show the last 5 contacts imported , but at the moment i am using the same code one would find in the basic Index method of a controller (i intend to filter the data at a later point), the method in the controller is –

def newcontacts

  @contacts = Contact.all

  respond_to do |format|
    format.html # index.html.erb
  end
end

I can access localhost:3000/contacts which displays the index method action from the contact controller, but when i try and access this method (newcontacts) using localhost:3000/contacts/newcontacts it returns the error

Couldn't find Contact with id=newcontacts

I have looked at the routes.rb file as i believe this is what needs editing, and have added the following line to routes.rb

match 'newcontacts', :to => 'contacts#newcontacts'

but this only works when i call localhost:3000/newcontacts.

So my question is, how do i get the url localhost:3000/contacts/newcontacts to work?

Any help would be great.

Answer 1

I think what you’re trying to do is add another RESTful action.

resources :contacts do
  # This will map to /contacts/newcontacts
  get 'newcontacts', :on => :collection # Or (not and; use only one of these)...

  # This will map to /contacts/:id/newcontacts
  get 'newcontacts', :on => :member     # ... if you want to pass in a contact id.
end