Post method to custom action

Rails
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I posted this question last night but it doesn’t seem to have made it to
the group.

I’m wondering why I can’t get a post method to work for a custom action

I’ve tried

map.resources :foo, :collection => { :sort => :post}
map.resources :foo, :new => { :sort => :post}
map.resources :foo, :create => { :sort => :post}
map.resources :foo, :member => { :sort => :post}

In all cases the post call seems to take me to either the create action
or show.

Sorry if this is a really basic question but docs say you should be able
to do :any and it’s not happening for me.

Thanks.

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Grayson P. wrote:

I posted this question last night but it doesn’t seem to have made it to
the group.

I’m wondering why I can’t get a post method to work for a custom action

I’ve tried

map.resources :foo, :collection => { :sort => :post}
map.resources :foo, :new => { :sort => :post}
map.resources :foo, :create => { :sort => :post}
map.resources :foo, :member => { :sort => :post}

In all cases the post call seems to take me to either the create action
or show.

Sorry if this is a really basic question but docs say you should be able
to do :any and it’s not happening for me.

Thanks.

When you mean it doesn’t work, do you mean that your method in the
controller doesn’t get dispatched to?

In the future, when asking for help, please provide at least some
details like the error message that you are getting, relevant log info,
stack trace, etc, Using this information, we can provide further
assistance…

ilan

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Based on what you’ve posted, my guess is that you want to return a set
of sorted foos. If that’s the case, the first form is correct – it’s
an operation on the entire collection of foos. The form appears to be
correct as well (action_id => HTTP Verb).

The first question then is: did you restart your webrick/mongrel
server? The routes file is only parsed when the server starts so you
could have made the correct change and the server just did not know
it.

Next, you may need to look at how you invoked the call to the server.
Forms default to POST and links often use a GET. Rails provides
a :method option as part of its helpers so you can force the postback
to use the right verb.

link_to sort_foos_path, :method=>:post

HTH,
AndyV

On Mar 2, 11:46 am, Grayson P. [email protected]

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Grayson P. wrote:

I’m wondering why I can’t get a post method to work for a custom action

Did you restart the application after changing your routes.rb file?