…route me to the users/show page? Here are my routes:
Test2App::Application.routes.draw do
resources :users
root :to => “pages#home”
post ‘users/update_clicks’
I know I can get the link to go to ‘pages/home’ as intended by adding
:method => post to the link, but I’m curious how the the users/show page
gets rendered? I would expect a ‘get’ request to ‘users/update_clicks’
to produce a routing error.
Here are my controllers:
class PagesController < ApplicationController
def home @title = “Home”
end
end
class UsersController < ApplicationController
def update_clicks
render ‘pages/home’
end
end
gets rendered? I would expect a ‘get’ request to ‘users/update_clicks’
to produce a routing error.
The users#show route which “resources :users” creates is:
get '/users/:id', :controller => 'users', :action => 'show'
When you try to GET /users/update_clicks, it matches this route, with
the ‘id’ parameter equal to ‘update_clicks’.
There is nothing too magical going on in the router; it matches URL
segments in a simple way. It doesn’t know that ‘update_clicks’ is
unlikely to be a real ID. All it sees is a path with ‘users’ in the
first bit, and then something in the second bit, and as far as it’s
concerned that’s a match.
More importantly, it just uses the first matching route it can find, and
ignores anything else in your routes file. So in this case, it’s finding
a matching route in “resources :users”, and so it’s essentially ignoring
your “post ‘users/update_clicks’” route.