Question

My homecontroller has:

def about()
end

And I have a rspec test that does GET ‘about’ and it fails saying that there is no route that matches.

doesn’t this map all actions in the controller:

resources :home

or do I have to explicitly state each action in the home controller?

Answer 1

resources :home sets up the default RESTful routes – index, show, new, create, edit, update, and destroy. Any additional routes have to be specified. It looks like you’re adding a simple collection route, so you’d specify it like this:

resources :home
  collection do
    get 'about'
  end
end

This will give your the route ‘/home/about’. I assume this is Rails 3. If you’re in Rails 2.x, do it like so:

map.resources :home, :collection => {:about => :get}

And from the command line, you can always see what routes you have available with this command:

rake routes

I hope this helps!

EDIT: If you want a default route, you can add this:

match ':controller(/:action(/:id))'

This is a default route that will match any generic requests.

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Routing in Ruby on Rails 3

I created a companion Rails 3 app that can be downloaded to play around with, as well:

https://github.com/kconrails/rails3_routing

If you have any questions, please hit up my site and ask. Thanks!