Question

Today I tried to follow the basic “Twitter” tutorial on :
–> http://www.noupe.com/ajax/create-a-simple-twitter-app.html

But in the midle of the tutorial I have an issue.
It says that you should edit /config/routes.rb and add this piece of code :

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|  
  map.resources :posts  
  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'  
  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'  
end

It was written a while ago so there are probably incompatibilities with rails3 especially with the new routing synthax.
So I tried to fix changing it in :

Standart::Application.routes.draw do |map|
  resources :posts
  match ':controller/:action/:id'
  match ':controller/:action/:id.:format'
end

Where “Standart” the name of the application is.

Answer 1

You need a root route:

resources :posts
root :to => 'posts#index'

You should try to avoid those catch-all routes that Rails 2 used. If you need other routes, try to see what fits into resourceful routes and use those, and create specific routes with the Rails 3 DSL for anything that doesn’t fit.