Question

Running Rails 3.2.11, I have a regular controller “LbuController” which is basically an enhanced scaffold, enhanced by 4 additional GET methods used for AJAX requests.

resources :lbus do
  get 'add_offering'
  get 'remove_offering'
  get 'add_offering_element'
  get 'remove_offering_element'
end

running rake routes gives me the following routes

           lbu_add_offering GET    /lbus/:lbu_id/add_offering(.:format)                                 lbus#add_offering
        lbu_remove_offering GET    /lbus/:lbu_id/remove_offering(.:format)                              lbus#remove_offering
   lbu_add_offering_element GET    /lbus/:lbu_id/add_offering_element(.:format)                         lbus#add_offering_element
lbu_remove_offering_element GET    /lbus/:lbu_id/remove_offering_element(.:format)                      lbus#remove_offering_element
                       lbus GET    /lbus(.:format)                                                      lbus#index
                            POST   /lbus(.:format)                                                      lbus#create
                    new_lbu GET    /lbus/new(.:format)                                                  lbus#new
                   edit_lbu GET    /lbus/:id/edit(.:format)                                             lbus#edit
                        lbu GET    /lbus/:id(.:format)                                                  lbus#show
                            PUT    /lbus/:id(.:format)                                                  lbus#update
                            DELETE /lbus/:id(.:format)                                                  lbus#destroy

which seem exactly to be what I intended.

But following a link to http://localhost:3000/lbus/new created with link_to "new", new_lbu_path gives me the following error:

No route matches {:action=>"add_offering", :lbu_id=>nil, :offering_id=>1, :controller=>"lbus"}

which makes absolutely no sense for me.
Anybody got any ideas what’s happening here and what’s going wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

On the ‘new’ view you must have used a lbu_add_offering path.

That path seems to be incorrect. The error refers to that :action=> “add_offering”.