Question

I’m trying to create a custom action for a Update My Profile Page. It can’t be the regular users#edit or users#update action because only Admins can use that page.

So this is what I have in routes.rb (side question: how can I make the link become mydomain.com/users/update_profile instead of mydomain.com/update_profile?

get 'update_profile/:id' => "users#update_profile", :as => 'update_profile'

_form.html.erb

<%= form_for @user, :url => update_profile_path(@user) do |f| %>
  <%= render :partial => "form", :locals => {:f => f} %>
<% end %>

users_controller.rb

def update_profile
  @user = User.find(params[:id])
  respond_to do |format|
    if @user.update_attributes(params[:user])
      format.html { redirect_to @user, notice: 'User was successfully updated.' }
    else
      format.html { render action: "edit" }
    end
  end
end

When I submit the form I get this: Routing Error No route matches [PUT] “/update_profile/1”

I understand the error because according to the output of rake routes the update_profile action is GET.

So I need to change it to PUT, but I don’t know how. How can I setup a custom PUT action in routes.rb?

Answer 1

You should add it as a member of your users resource

resources :users do
  member do
    put :update_profile
  end
end

This way it will still be part of your users resource and the route will be automatically generated and be accessible in your form through something like update_profile_user_path(@user)