Strange (for me) Scaffold source code generated

Rails
1

Hello :slight_smile:

I generated model, view and controler for products database table
using scaffold

I try to change controler name from product to admin but I can’t :frowning: (I
didn’t know how to specifi diferent controler name when use scaffold)

I controllers/s_controller.rb to controllers/admin_controller.rb
view/products directory to view admin directory
layout/products.html.erb to layout/admin.html.erb
and make some modifications

but i can’t do it because there are some strange thinks

view\products\index.html
<%= link_to ‘Show’, product %>
<%= link_to ‘Edit’, edit_product_path(product) %>
<%= link_to ‘Destroy’, product, :confirm => ‘Are you
sure?’, :method => :delete %>

what are these edit_product_path functions? And why edit link is
something like
Edit
and not
Edit

when i try to make /admin/1/edit request I get an error that I have
not action 1, it works only with /admin/edit/1

in products controler it works both ways:
/products/1/edit
and
/products/edit/1/

Can you help me, pls :slight_smile:

2

If I have to short my question it is:

view/products/index.html.erb

Listing products

<% for product in @products %>

<% end %>
Title Description Image url
<%=h product.title %> <%=h product.description %> <%=h product.image_url %> <%= link_to 'Show', product %> <%= link_to 'Edit', edit_product_path(product) %> <%= link_to 'Destroy', product, :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :method => :delete %>

<%= link_to ‘New product’, new_product_path %>

what is this function edit_product_path and why the result is
/1/edit and not /edit/1

And why both work?

???

3

On 25 Nov 2008, at 10:11, Ju Lian wrote:

<%= link_to ‘New product’, new_product_path %>

what is this function edit_product_path and why the result is
/1/edit and not /edit/1

Short answer: restful routing. When you declare a route for products
in routes.rb this add a bunch of named routes, so new_product_path is
the url which gives you the path where the new product form is,
edit_product_path(some_product) is the url for editing some_product
etc…

And why both work?

because you still have the old controller/action/id routes in your
routes.rb file

4

Frederick C. wrote:

On 25 Nov 2008, at 10:11, Ju Lian wrote:

<%= link_to ‘New product’, new_product_path %>

what is this function edit_product_path and why the result is
/1/edit and not /edit/1

Short answer: restful routing. When you declare a route for products
in routes.rb this add a bunch of named routes, so new_product_path is
the url which gives you the path where the new product form is,
edit_product_path(some_product) is the url for editing some_product
etc…

And why both work?

because you still have the old controller/action/id routes in your
routes.rb file

Thank you very much :slight_smile:

Now I understand that I have to learn this:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing_outside_in.html

5

May be this is the right way (it works)

=============
=== routes.rb

map.resources :products, :as => ‘admin’

6

Ju Lian wrote:

Frederick C. wrote:

On 25 Nov 2008, at 10:11, Ju Lian wrote:

<%= link_to ‘New product’, new_product_path %>

what is this function edit_product_path and why the result is
/1/edit and not /edit/1

Short answer: restful routing. When you declare a route for products
in routes.rb this add a bunch of named routes, so new_product_path is
the url which gives you the path where the new product form is,
edit_product_path(some_product) is the url for editing some_product
etc…

And why both work?

because you still have the old controller/action/id routes in your
routes.rb file

Thank you very much :slight_smile:

Now I understand that I have to learn this:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing_outside_in.html

I still can’t change controller name from products to admin

=============
=== routes.rb

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
map.resources :products
map.resources :admin

map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’

map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.:format’

end

May be controler name must be ‘admins’ ?

Some of helpers functions doesn’t work for me :frowning:

=================================
=== /view/products/index.hmtl.erb

<td><%= link_to 'Show', product %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_product_path(product) %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Destroy', product, :confirm => 'Are you sure?',

:method => :delete %>

<%= link_to ‘New product’, new_product_path %>

become:

=== /view/admin/index.hmtl.erb

<td><%= link_to 'Show', admin_path(:id => product.id) %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_admin_path(:id => product.id) %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Destroy', admin_path(:id => product.id), :confirm

=> ‘Are you sure?’, :method => :delete %>

<%= link_to ‘New product’, new_admin_path %>

=================================
=== /view/products/new.hmtl.erb

New product

<% form_for(@product) do |f| %>
<%= f.error_messages %>

<%= f.label :title %>
<%= f.text_field :title %>

<%= f.label :description %>
<%= f.text_area :description %>

<%= f.label :image_url %>
<%= f.text_field :image_url %>

<%= f.submit "Create" %>

<% end %>

<%= link_to ‘Back’, products_path %>

=================================
=== /view/admin/new.hmtl.erb

New product

<% form_for(@product) do |f| %>
<%= f.error_messages %>

<%= f.label :title %>
<%= f.text_field :title %>

<%= f.label :description %>
<%= f.text_area :description %>

<%= f.label :image_url %>
<%= f.text_field :image_url %>

<%= f.submit "Create" %>

<% end %>

<%= link_to ‘Back’, admin_path %>

1-st The form submits to product controller instead of new admin
controller
2-nd admin_path or admins_path in the last row give me an error

:slight_smile: What I am doing wrong?

Is there some reason not to change controller name from products to
admin?