Link_to and routing question

I have the following link_to:

<%= link_to(“Remove”, {:action => “remove_role_from_account”, :role_id
=> role, :account_id => @account}) %>

It generates:
http://myserver.com/roles/remove_role_from_account?account_id=1&role_id=5

But this doesn’t match the right default route:

{:action=>“wsdl”} /:controller/:action/:id.:format
/:controller/:action/:id

So it’s not hitting my action “remove_role_from_account” and instead is
try to go to action “show” with the id as “remove_role_from_account”

what am i doing wrong here?

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Allen W. <
[email protected]> wrote:

{:action=>“wsdl”} /:controller/:action/:id.:format
/:controller/:action/:id

So it’s not hitting my action “remove_role_from_account” and instead is
try to go to action “show” with the id as “remove_role_from_account”

what am i doing wrong here?

what does the output of:

rake routes

look like?

–wpd

Patrick D. wrote:

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Allen W. <
[email protected]> wrote:

{:action=>“wsdl”} /:controller/:action/:id.:format
/:controller/:action/:id

So it’s not hitting my action “remove_role_from_account” and instead is
try to go to action “show” with the id as “remove_role_from_account”

what am i doing wrong here?

what does the output of:

rake routes

look like?

–wpd

                               roles GET    /roles 

{:action=>“index”, :controller=>“roles”}
formatted_roles GET
/roles.:format
{:action=>“index”, :controller=>“roles”}
POST /roles
{:action=>“create”, :controller=>“roles”}
POST
/roles.:format
{:action=>“create”, :controller=>“roles”}
new_role GET /roles/new
{:action=>“new”, :controller=>“roles”}
formatted_new_role GET
/roles/new.:format
{:action=>“new”, :controller=>“roles”}
edit_role GET
/roles/:id/edit
{:action=>“edit”, :controller=>“roles”}
formatted_edit_role GET
/roles/:id/edit.:format
{:action=>“edit”, :controller=>“roles”}
role GET /roles/:id
{:action=>“show”, :controller=>“roles”}
formatted_role GET
/roles/:id.:format
{:action=>“show”, :controller=>“roles”}
PUT /roles/:id
{:action=>“update”, :controller=>“roles”}
PUT
/roles/:id.:format
{:action=>“update”, :controller=>“roles”}
DELETE /roles/:id
{:action=>“destroy”, :controller=>“roles”}
DELETE
/roles/:id.:format
{:action=>“destroy”, :controller=>“roles”}
{:action=>“wsdl”}
/:controller/:action/:id.:format
/:controller/:action/:id

{:action=>“index”, :controller=>“roles”}
formatted_new_role GET
formatted_role GET
/roles/:id.:format
{:action=>“destroy”, :controller=>“roles”}
{:action=>“wsdl”}

/:controller/:action/:id.:format

/:controller/:action/:id

In all my humble newbieness, it looks to me like, when you get a URL of the
form /roles/something?with_this?and_that, the first pattern that the
route
table finds that matches that is the pattern that looks like:
/roles/:id, so
you get routed to the “show” action of the "roles"controller. I know
that
the routes table is processed in order and the first pattern that
matches is
the one that triggers the action (which is why the
/:controller/:action/:id
pattern is always listed last.).

What I don’t know is, why does {:action => “remove_role_from_account”,
:role_id => role, :account_id => @account} produce a url of the form:
/roles/remove_role_from_account, when you specifically plug in an action
of
“remove_role_from_account”.

Sorry if this doesn’t help much.

–wpd