Rails REST doesn't show/load the right page - Ruby on Rails - ruby-on-rails

Question

Basically I created a controller, model and view for subjects. Basically I have 6 actions inside my controller and set up a REST inside my routes file to route the right file.
When I entered, http://localhost:3000/subjects/index it shows me the view for show.html.erb instead of the index.html.erb
Here's what my subject controller looks like:
class SubjectsController < ApplicationController
def index
#subjects = Subject.sorted
end
And here's the content of my index.html.erb file.
<% #page_title = "All Subjects" %>
<div class="subjects index">
<h2>Subjects</h2>
<%= link_to("Add New Subject", new_subject_path, :class => "action_new") %>
<table class="listing" summary="Subject list" border="1">
<tr class="header">
<th>#</th>
<th>Subject</th>
<th>Visible</th>
<th>Pages</th>
<th>Actions</th>
</tr>
<% #subjects.each do |subject| %>
<tr>
<td><%= subject.position %> </td>
<td><%= subject.name %> </td>
<td class="center"><%= status_tag(subject.visible) %></td>
<td class="center"><%= subject.pages.size %> </td>
<td class="actions">
<%= link_to("View Pages", pages_path(:subject_id => subject.id), :class => 'action show') %>
<%= link_to("Show", subject_path(subject), :class => 'action show') %>
<%= link_to("Edit", edit_subject_path(subject), :class => 'action edit') %>
<%= link_to("Delete", delete_subject_path(subject), :class => 'action delete') %>
<td>
</tr>
<% end %>
<table>
</div>
Also here's what I set up on my routes:
resources :subjects do
member do
get :delete
end
end
Any idea what am I missing?

Answer 1

The answer is simple: in order you access the index page, you need to hit the following URL:
http://localhost:3000/subjects
Obviously, it will be with GET
The reason why you got the error is: since, anything of the format subjects/:id will take you to the show action within SubjectsController, so Rails interprets subjects/index as you are trying to access the page subjects/:id with index as id of the subject. Here's nothing wrong with Rails, since in RESTful web services, you access the index page by ONLY using the plural name of the resource, like in your case http://localhost:3000/subjects