# Active Record Basics - Making it commentable **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 1, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-record-basics-making-it-commentable/62167 "2006-06-01T02:02:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jtei)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-record-basics-making-it-commentable/62167/1 "2006-06-01T02:02:36Z")
hi everyone, I hope someone can help me out with some active record basics? I’ve been banging my head for the past 4 hours and I can’t seem to get it to work. I am trying to add comments to a caption (just like how one adds a comment to a post in a blog). I seem to be able to read posts just fine from the DB, however, I can’t use the “recordComment” method in captions\_controller.rb. Any ideas? I suspect that it has something to do with my recordComment method? My code is posted in the below URL. [http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/piB0aG77.html](http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/piB0aG77.html) This the error that I get when I try to submit a comment: Unknown action No action responded to recordComment Thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jtei)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 10:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-record-basics-making-it-commentable/62167/2 "2006-06-01T10:03:51Z")
try specifying also the controller…otherwise i have no idea start\_form\_tag :controller =\> “captions”, :action =\> ‘recordComment’, :id =\> @caption ---
**Author:** ![jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jtei)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 10:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-record-basics-making-it-commentable/62167/3 "2006-06-01T10:14:56Z")
Hi Ioana, Thanks for the reply, however, I actually tried that and I get this error: Routing Error Recognition failed for “/caption/recordComment/23” If it helps at all, this is the URL that I get when I submit a comment: [http://localhost:3000/captions/recordComment/23](http://localhost:3000/captions/recordComment/23) Thanks, Jordan Ioana K. wrote: > try specifying also the controller…otherwise i have no idea > > start\_form\_tag :controller =\> “captions”, :action =\> ‘recordComment’, > :id =\> @caption ---
**Author:** ![jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jtei)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 11:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-record-basics-making-it-commentable/62167/4 "2006-06-01T11:13:25Z")
Hi Ioana, Thanks again for the reply. But I seem to have that in my routes.rb already: # You can have the root of your site routed by hooking up ‘’ # – just remember to delete public/index.html. map.connect ‘’, :controller =\> “captions”, :action =\>“list” # Allow downloading Web Service WSDL as a file with an extension # instead of a file named ‘wsdl’ map.connect ‘:controller/service.wsdl’, :action =\> ‘wsdl’ # Install the default route as the lowest priority. map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’ Any other ideas? Thanks again for taking the time to help me out! Jordan Ioana K. wrote: > Strange.In your routes.rb do u have this: > "map.connect’:controller/:action/:id’ "?..or i don’t know take a > better look at > routes.rb…I think there’s the key. ---
**Author:** ![jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jtei)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 11:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-record-basics-making-it-commentable/62167/5 "2006-06-01T11:24:15Z")
Give another name to your method 😃 Sorry no idea. It’s beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jtei)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 11:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-record-basics-making-it-commentable/62167/6 "2006-06-01T11:28:39Z")
Ha ya that was another idea I had so I changed it from ‘def comment’ to ‘def recordComment’…didn’t work ☹ Well thanks for trying though. I hope someone else can help me out! Thanks again! Ioana K. wrote: > Give another name to your method 😃 > Sorry no idea. It’s beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jtei)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-record-basics-making-it-commentable/62167/7 "2006-06-01T10:43:24Z")
Strange.In your routes.rb do u have this: "map.connect’:controller/:action/:id’ "?..or i don’t know take a better look at routes.rb…I think there’s the key. ---
**Author:** ![jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jtei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jtei)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-record-basics-making-it-commentable/62167/8 "2006-06-01T18:12:50Z")
Jordan I. wrote: > Routing Error > Recognition failed for “/caption/recordComment/23” > > If it helps at all, this is the URL that I get when I submit a comment: > [http://localhost:3000/captions/recordComment/23](http://localhost:3000/captions/recordComment/23) Your URL should have a plural “captions” not singular “caption” in the controller piece, just like the generated URL. – Josh S. [http://blog.hasmanythrough.com](http://blog.hasmanythrough.com)