# Routes-problem, probably **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 21, 2008, 11:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routes-problem-probably/129767 "2008-02-21T11:23:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kaizerkaizer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 11:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routes-problem-probably/129767/1 "2008-02-21T11:23:12Z")
Hi there, I’m still not very good (although I’m getting better) at RoR. I’m trying to create a friendship between a user and another user. After using the “friendships/new.rhtml”, fill in the user’s name and hit the create-button. Now it is suppose to move on to the method “create” but it can’t find the method “create” in the friendships controller. The fault lies either in the “form” of my “new.rhtml” or in my routes-file, I’m guessing (since it can’t find a method which exists)… But I can’t understand WHY. It’s probably easy for you to see directly. #################### My ROUTES #################### ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map| map.home ‘’, :controller =\> ‘home’, :action =\>‘index’ # The priority is based upon order of creation: first created -\> highest priority. map.resources :users map.resource :session map.resource :presentation map.resources :friendships # all users ``` map.resources :users do |user| ``` # friendships ‘owned by’ user (user --\> friendship --\> friend) ``` user.resources :friendships, :member => { :accept => :get } end ``` map.signup ‘/signup’, :controller =\> ‘users’, :action =\> ‘new’ map.login ‘/login’, :controller =\> ‘session’, :action =\> ‘new’ map.logout ‘/logout’, :controller =\> ‘session’, :action =\> ‘destroy’ map.edit ‘/edit’, :controller =\> ‘presentation’, :action =\> ‘edit’ map.info ‘/info’, :controller =\> ‘presentation’, :action =\> ‘info’ map.uploader ‘/uploader’, :controller =\> ‘entry’, :action =\> ‘uploader’ map.portfolio ‘/portfolio’, :controller =\> ‘portfolio’, :action =\> ‘new’ map.look ‘/look’, :controller =\> ‘portfolio’, :action =\> ‘look’ #the default route as the lowest priority. map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.:format’ map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’ end ####################### Friendships Controller ####################### class FriendshipsController \< ApplicationController before\_filter :find\_friendships, :only =\> [:index] before\_filter :find\_friendship, :only =\> [:show] before\_filter :find\_friendship\_auth, :only =\> [:accept, :edit, :update, :destroy] def new unless params[:user\_id] and params[:user\_id].to\_i != current\_user.id.to\_i @friendship = Friendship.new(:user\_id =\> current\_user.id) else @friendship = Friendship.new(:user\_id =\> current\_user.id, :friend\_id =\> params[:user\_id]) end end #won’t use the CREATE method, WHY?!! def create if (@friendship = Friendship.new(params[:friendship]) unless Friendship.find\_by\_user\_id\_and\_friend\_id(params[:friendship][:user\_id], params[:friendship][:friend\_id])) # set datetime @friendship.accepted\_at = nil if @friendship.save put “Friendship was successfully requested” redirect\_to friendship\_url(@friendship.friend\_id, @friendship) else put “Friendship was not successfully requested” render :action =\> “new” end else put “Friendship not created (already exists)” end end ####################### new.rhtml (friendships) ####################### # Make a friendship request \<%= error\_messages\_for :friendship %\> \<% form\_for(:friendship, :url =\> { :controller =\> “friendships”, :action =\> “create” }) do |f| %\> **Friend** \<% unless params[:user\_id] %\> \<%= f.text\_field :friend\_id, :value =\> params[:user\_id] %\> \<% end %\> \<%= submit\_tag "Confirm Friendship Request" %\> \<% end %\> ###################### I would like some sort of feedback to this…probably I’ve just never had the pleasure to understand how routes work properly. ---
**Author:** ![kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kaizerkaizer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routes-problem-probably/129767/2 "2008-02-21T15:25:43Z")
First, you may be having some issues because you’ve got friendships defined twice in your routes (one ‘top-level’ and the other nested under users). Just a guess, but url\_for might be getting confused. Better to used the named route to eliminate confusion. \<% form\_for(:friendship, :url =\>user\_friendships\_path(@current\_user) ) do |f| %\> … \<% end %\> On Feb 21, 5:23 am, Dag S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kaizerkaizer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routes-problem-probably/129767/3 "2008-02-21T17:05:02Z")
I don’t think it will get confused. But run ‘rake routes’ to see what kind of url helpers you can use. It is probably something like AndyV mentions. ---
**Author:** ![kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kaizerkaizer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 11:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routes-problem-probably/129767/4 "2008-02-22T11:34:06Z")
Okay, thanks for the input and suggestion both of you. I tried using the snippet below, but I still recieve the same error “Unknown action, No action responded to create” \<% form\_for(:friendship, :url =\>user\_friendships\_path(@current\_user) ) do |f| %\> The first “map.resources :friendships” dosen’t seem to confuse Create part of the routes (i recieve the same result with or without), it only gives me more possible routes for other stuff related to friendships. I have a hard time understanding routes, so bare with me. What I could understand (and which may be wrong) of the information recieved from the “raked routes” is: that the route is incomplete (maybe?) With my New method which is displayed with the New view (and I believe to understand this) ########################################################## new\_user\_friendship GET /users/:user\_id/friendships/new {:action=\>“new”, :controller=\>“friendships”} ########################################################## Submitting the form from New it should pass it on to the Create method so it will get POSTed. But here is where I get confused. When I raked the routes the two Creates can be found without any “home” (like the one above). I figure this is what is wrong. ################################################ POST /users/:user\_id/friendships {:action=\>“create”, :controller=\>“friendships”} POST /users/:user\_id/friendships.:format {:action=\>“create”, :controller=\>“friendships”} ################################################ Any suggestions of how to solve it? Am I right about this beeing the this which is wrong? Maybe there is more to this which is screwing it up? ######################################## This is the part of the routes that has to do with Friendships… ######################################## user\_friendships GET /users/:user\_id/friendships {:action=\>“index”, :controller=\>“friendships”} formatted\_user\_friendships GET /users/:user\_id/friendships.:format {:action=\>“index”, :controller=\>“friendships”} POST /users/:user\_id/friendships {:action=\>“create”, :controller=\>“friendships”} POST /users/:user\_id/friendships.:format {:action=\>“create”, :controller=\>“friendships”} new\_user\_friendship GET /users/:user\_id/friendships/new {:action=\>“new”, :controller=\>“friendships”} formatted\_new\_user\_friendship GET /users/:user\_id/friendships/new.:format {:action=\>“new”, :controller=\>“friendships”} edit\_user\_friendship GET /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id/edit {:action=\>“edit”, :controller=\>“friendships”} GET /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id;edit {:action=\>“edit”, :controller=\>“friendships”} GET /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id.:format;edit {:action=\>“edit”, :controller=\>“friendships”} formatted\_edit\_user\_friendship GET /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id/edit.:format {:action=\>“edit”, :controller=\>“friendships”} accept\_user\_friendship GET /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id/accept {:action=\>“accept”, :controller=\>“friendships”} GET /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id;accept {:action=\>“accept”, :controller=\>“friendships”} GET /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id.:format;accept {:action=\>“accept”, :controller=\>“friendships”} formatted\_accept\_user\_friendship GET /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id/accept.:format {:action=\>“accept”, :controller=\>“friendships”} user\_friendship GET /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id {:action=\>“show”, :controller=\>“friendships”} formatted\_user\_friendship GET /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id.:format {:action=\>“show”, :controller=\>“friendships”} PUT /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id {:action=\>“update”, :controller=\>“friendships”} PUT /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id.:format {:action=\>“update”, :controller=\>“friendships”} DELETE /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id {:action=\>“destroy”, :controller=\>“friendships”} DELETE /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id.:format {:action=\>“destroy”, :controller=\>“friendships”} signup /signup {:action=\>“new”, :controller=\>“users”} login /login {:action=\>“new”, :controller=\>“session”} logout /logout {:action=\>“destroy”, :controller=\>“session”} edit /edit {:action=\>“edit”, :controller=\>“presentation”} info /info {:action=\>“info”, :controller=\>“presentation”} uploader /uploader {:action=\>“uploader”, :controller=\>“entry”} portfolio /portfolio {:action=\>“new”, :controller=\>“portfolio”} look /look {:action=\>“look”, :controller=\>“portfolio”} /:controller/:action/:id.:format /:controller/:action/:id Loaded suite c:/ruby/bin/rake Started Finished in 0.0 seconds. 0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors C:\ruby\authentication\> ---
**Author:** ![kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kaizerkaizer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routes-problem-probably/129767/5 "2008-02-22T12:47:20Z")
oh, I forgot…this is what raked routes showed after that. create\_user\_friendship POST /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id/create {:action=\>“create”, :controller=\>“friendships”} POST /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id;create {:action=\>“create”, :controller=\>“friendships”} POST /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id.:format;create {:action=\>“create”, :controller=\>“friendships”} formatted\_create\_user\_friendship POST /users/:user\_id/friendships/:id/create.:format {:action=\>“create”, :controller=\>“friendships”} ---
**Author:** ![kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kaizerkaizer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routes-problem-probably/129767/6 "2008-02-22T16:47:08Z")
Don’t know WHAT or WHY, but it seems to work now… it’s totally wierd. Oh, well, thanks anyways ---
**Author:** ![kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kaizerkaizer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routes-problem-probably/129767/7 "2008-02-22T12:41:30Z")
a quick update…I tried to create a “home” for the Create in the routes in the “user.resources :friendships, :member =\> { :accept =\> :get}” by adding the “, :create =\> :post” to the above. But no further success…don’t even know if this was right to do.