Question

I’m using rails 3.1.3 (I believe the latest version) and in my app I am using the gem Devise for user auth. In order to add a user show (profile) page, I added a Users_Controller.rb

class UsersController < ApplicationController
  before_filter :authenticate_user!

  def show
    @userProfile = User.find(params[:id])
    @user = current_user
    @title = @userProfile.name
  end
end

and in the routes.rb file i have resources :users.
I also have a simple app/views/users/show.html.erb.
Now this all works fine and dandy when I manually go to localhost:3000/users/1 but, when I try to make a link to the profile <%=link_to "My Profile", user_path(@user) %> (This is in my applicationcontroller.rb incase that matters) I get an Action Controller: Exception No route matches {:action=>"show", :controller=>"users"}
BUT when i rake routes, action show and controller users show up. What am i doing wrong!!!
Please help!!

Answer 1

Instead of

<%=link_to "My Profile", user_path(@user) %>

do

<%=link_to "My Profile", @user %>

However, doing that in ApplicationController seems a bit strange. It should probably be in a view or layout file.