Acts As Follower doesn't work on front end - ruby-on-rails

Question

I installed Acts_as_follower. I used the methods from the documentation in my console so I've determined that user 1 follows user 2(using devise) in ActiveRecord, and on my front end in the users/show.html.erb page it shows the appropriate follow/unfollow portion of the button I've implemented. Unfortunately whenever I press the follow/unfollow button nothing changes or happens.
I'm thinking it's the routing but wondering if anybody has an idea of why nothing happens. I've confirmed the lack of action from my console.
user.rb
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
# Include default devise modules. Others available are:
# :confirmable, :lockable, :timeoutable and :omniauthable
devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
:recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable
acts_as_followable
acts_as_follower
has_attached_file :image, :styles => { :medium => "300x300>", :thumb=> "100x100>" }
validates_attachment_content_type :image, :content_type => /\Aimage\/.*\Z/
has_many :articles
has_many :comments
end
routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do
devise_for :users
resources :articles do
member do
put "Like", to: "articles#upvote"
put "Disike", to: "articles#downvote"
end
resources :comments
end
resources :users do
get :follow
get :unfollow
end
root 'welcome#index'
users_controller.rb
class UsersController < ApplicationController
def show
#user = User.find(params[:id])
#user_articles = #user.articles
end
def create
#user = User.find(params[:user_id])
current_user.follow(#user)
end
def destroy
#user = User.find(params[:user_id])
current_user.stop_following(#user)
end
end
followers_controller.rb
class FollowsController < ApplicationController
before_action :authenticate_user!
respond_to :js
def create
#user = User.find(params[:user_id])
current_user.follow(#user)
end
def destroy
#user = User.find(params[:user_id])
current_user.stop_following(#user)
end
end
The button in users/show.html.erb
<div class="follow">
<% if #user.followed_by?(current_user) %>
<%= form_tag user_unfollow_path(user_id: #user.id), method: :post, remote: true do %>
<center><%= button_tag 'unfollow', class: 'btn btn-primary' %></center>
<% end %>
<% else %>
<%= form_tag user_follow_path(user_id: #user.id), method: :post, remote: true do %>
<center><%= button_tag 'follow', class: 'btn btn-success' %></center>
<% end %>
<% end %>
</div>
</div>

Answer 1

Your suspicion is correct, this is indeed a routing issue. But you get an A for effort as the documentation doesn't discuss the front end, good on you for getting this far :)
Your routes should look more like:
resources :users do
post :follow, to: "#followers#create"
delete :unfollow, to: "followers#destroy"
end
Note that unfollow is calling destroy, so by convention it's delete, also by convention create should be post.
Given that, make sure your view will look like:
<div class="follow">
<% if #user.followed_by?(current_user) %>
<%= form_tag user_unfollow_path(user_id: #user.id), method: :delete, remote: true do %>
<center><%= button_tag 'unfollow', class: 'btn btn-primary' %></center>
<% end %>
<% else %>
<%= form_tag user_follow_path(user_id: #user.id), method: :post, remote: true do %>
<center><%= button_tag 'follow', class: 'btn btn-success' %></center>
<% end %>
<% end %>
</div>