Question

So I am relatively new to Ruby on Rails and am building a project management system for an independent study at my University using the language. So far I have created:

• an an area where a user can create a multiple projects(http://i.imgur.com/pXOBg.png)
• and in each project a user can create multple to-do lists (https://i.stack.imgur.com/H6yKb.png)
• within each to-do list, a user can create multiple tasks which can be marked as complete/incomplete (http://i.imgur.com/DMdcN.png)

Everything’s related via foreign keys in the SQLite DB, and is working relatively fine, except that when I add a task. Although the task does get added to the to-do list, I get redirected to an incorrect URL. I created the to-do list app separate from my project management system just to see how I could create it and the redirecting and everything worked just fine, but implementing it into my project has proved somewhat troublesome.

Here is the problem that am running into: https://i.stack.imgur.com/C7ruk.jpg. The link in the URL should be http://localhost:3000/projects/2/lists/15, so the IDs are getting mixed up. What’s being displayed is http://localhost:3000/projects/15/lists/14 where 15 is the ID of the list, not the project, and 14 is the ID of the task, not the list.

I believe the problem lies within my tasks_controller.rb, which contains the following:

class TasksController < ApplicationController

  attr_accessor :completed
  before_filter :find_list
  respond_to :html, :xml, :js

  def create
    @task = @list.tasks.new(params[:task])
    if @task.save
      flash[:notice] = "Task saved"
      redirect_to project_list_url(@list)
    else
      flash[:error] = "Task could not be saved"
      redirect_to project_list_url(@list)
    end
  end

  def complete
    @task = @list.tasks.find(params[:id])
    @task.completed = true
    @task.save
    redirect_to project_list_url(@list)
  end

  def incomplete 
    @task = @list.tasks.find(params[:id])
    @task.completed = false
    @task.save
    redirect_to project_list_url(@list)
  end

  def destroy
    @task = @list.tasks.find(params[:id])
    if @task.destroy
      flash[:notice] = "Task deleted"
      redirect_to project_list_url
    else
      flash[:error] = "Could not delete task"
      redirect_to project_list_url
    end
  end

  private 

  def find_list
    @list = List.find(params[:list_id])
  end

end

I think that the problem arises on the following $link redirect_to project_list_url(@list) because I believe that it should be $link redirect_to project_list_url(@project, @list). But everytime I add:

@project = Project.find(params[:project_id])

To my code, the to-do tasks won’t move from completed to incomplete or vice versa.

Here is the code in my to-do list view:

<h3>Stuff to do</h3>
<ul>
  <% @list.tasks.incomplete.each do |task| %>
    <li><%= task.description %> <%= button_to "Complete", complete_task_path(@list.id,task.id) %></li>
  <% end %>
</ul> 

<h3>Stuff I've Done</h3>
<ul>
  <% @list.tasks.completed.each do |task| %>
    <strike><li><%= task.description %></strike> <%= button_to "Incomplete", incomplete_task_path(@list.id,task.id) %></li>
  <% end %>
</ul> 

<hr />

<%= form_for [@project, @list, @task] do |form| %>
  <p><%= form.text_field :description %> <%= form.submit %></p>

Lastly, here’s a quick look at my routes.rb:

root :to => 'home#index'

devise_for :users

resources :projects do 
  resources :messages
  resources :lists do
    resources :tasks
  end
end

match 'lists/:list_id/tasks/:id/complete' => 'tasks#complete', :as => :complete_task
match 'lists/:list_id/tasks/:id/incomplete' => 'tasks#incomplete', :as => :incomplete_task

So the IDs are mixed up in the URL, and they do this whenever I edit a list as well (although I figured if I could fix it for the tasks that I could fix it for everything).

Thanks a lot to anybody who takes a look at this and offers me help, I really appreciate all of your time. If you need a look at any other controllers, models or views (projects, lists, tasks) or anything from my project, I would be more than happy to share it.

Answer 1

project_list_url(@list): this routing helper takes two parameters: a project and a list. Try adding the project (or just the project id):

redirect_to project_list_url(@list.project_id, @list)