Question

So, I’m trying to access other actions in my controller, and it assums I want “show” every time, when I really just want… the action I just had in my URL.

this is in my routes:

  map.resources :attachments

And when I do

domain/attachments/any_action?params

I get this error:

ActionController::UnknownAction (No action responded to show. Actions: {list of actions}

Using rails 2.3.8

Answer 1

The rule in Rails is first route matched, first route served.

Because you define a resource, it will consider everything like domain/attachments/whatever to be show action for the whatever stuff.

So two choices here:

• define your other routes and declare them before the resource

• nest your other routes inside the resource (I don’t know how to do that in Rails 2.x)