Question

trying to get rails routing to “click” and just not getting it

have a project and a task model:

class Task
  include Mongoid::Document

  field :title,                     :type => String
  has_many :projects
  belongs_to :user
end


class Project

  include Mongoid::Document

  field :title,                     :type => String
  has_and_belongs_to_many           :tasks
  belongs_to                        :user
end

I want to “associate” a task with a project
so I have this in the project controller:

def connect
  @project = Project.find(params[:id])
  @project.tasks_ids.push(params[:task_id])
  @project.save
  redirect_to project
end

with this route:

resources :projects do
    match 'connect/:id' => 'projects#connect', :as => :connect, :via => :put
    resources :tasks
end

I cant seem to get this to work in the view:

 = link_to 'Associate Task', project_connect_path(@task)

fails with:

No route matches {:controller=>”projects”, :action=>”connect”}

Answer 1

resources :projects do
  member do
   put :connect
  end
  resources :tasks
end

Your path should look like this:

= link_to ‘Associate Task’, project_connect_path(@project, :task_id => @task.id), :method => :put