Routes.rb

Rails
1

I feel like I’m doing something stupid, because I haven’t been able to
fix this.

I have this in my routes.rb file:

map.resources :networks, :has_many => :nodes
map.resources :auth
map.connect ‘users/login’, :controller => ‘users’, :action =>
‘login’
map.resources :users
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.:format’

I’m trying to generate an url that goest to localhost:3000/users/
login … but no matter what I do, that url always tries to work
through the “show” action as opposed to the “login” action I have in
the users controller.

What am I doing wrong?

2

hi justin,
my first guess is that are not reloading the routing table after
making the change. Remember to restart the server for new routes to
take effect. When I check in my code, your route just works fine.

dirk.

3

Add the line

map.connect ‘users/login’, :controller => ‘users’, :action => ‘login’

after

map.resources :users

in your routes.rb

4

Why should that work? Routes are consulted in the order they are
defined in routes.rb. So if you have
map.resources :users
before
map.connect ‘/users/login’
it will catch the ‘/users/:id’ declaration of the RESTful resource
routes and always get justin to the show action before it even reaches
the ‘/users/login’ declaration.

dirk.

5

thats right. the order is from top to bottom. It was my mistake.