Hi I'd like to accomplish having a URL that's
users/edit
instead of the current
users/7/edit
I have my own auth system built upon omniauth. Thus I store their user_id in a session. How would I go about accomplishing this task?
Assuming that you use current_user, even if you are using something else just replace current_user with your method, I am using current_user here, follow these steps,
Create an action, I would name it edit_user in your users controller
def edit_user
#user = current_user # or User.find(session[:user_id])
end
Add routes to routes.rb
get "/users/edit" => "users#edit_user"
You are done, you can use the above route anywhere in the application, you can also name the route if needed.
OR, if you don't want to define a new action and want to use the existing edit action, do this
Remove routes for edit from the default resources routes and then manually define it. In this way, you can use the existing edit action
resources :users, except: [:edit]
get "/users/edit" => "users#edit"
Hope this helped!
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I want the users#edit action to always be displayed as /settings.
In my routes I have
get "settings" => "users#edit", as: :settings
Any link to settings is like this
<%= link_to "Settings", settings_path %>
But when I visit example.com/username/edit, it doesn't redirect.
How can I redirect this to settings? And is this a bad practice?
I think you meant to do this instead
get '/username/edit', to: redirect('/settings')
the one you did above is trying to have that url use a method called
edit in users_controller with alias of settings to be used as settings_path in your link somewhere
It is always helpful to look at Rails API for these kinds of questions
Ref: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#redirection
By defining a new route settings you are telling Rails to route all GET requests that come to /settings to the users_controller's edit method. This does not mean that all requests that use that controller should redirect to another route - here you have just defined two separate routes that use the same controller method.
If you don't want to use user/edit ever, then I suggest you remove the route. If you currently have something like
# config/routes.rb
resources :users
Simply change it to
# config/routes.rb
resources :users, except: [:edit]
And keep using your settings_path helper.
I'm a new user of rails so it's complicated to understand how the routes.rb works! So I try to modify a route, I got a path that look like this:
user/:id/edit but i want that the id not appear in the path.
I try to use this method :
get '/users/:id/edit', to: 'users#edit', as: 'users/edit'
but it changes nothing. In my routes.rb i got :
resources :users, only: [:create, :new, :show, :edit]
Someone know how to do this? I already take a look at this guide
If you already take a look at guides, do you read about singular resources?
Sometimes, you have a resource that clients always look up without
referencing an ID. For example, you would like /profile to always show
the profile of the currently logged in user. In this case, you can use
a singular resource to map /profile (rather than /profile/:id) to the
show action:
resource :geocoder
creates six different routes in your application, all mapping to the Geocoders controller:
GET /geocoder/new geocoders#new return an HTML form for creating the geocoder
POST /geocoder geocoders#create create the new geocoder
GET /geocoder geocoders#show display the one and only geocoder resource
GET /geocoder/edit geocoders#edit return an HTML form for editing the geocoder
PATCH/PUT /geocoder geocoders#update update the one and only geocoder resource
DELETE /geocoder geocoders#destroy delete the geocoder resource
If you have taken,
resources :users
Now change this route as follows,
get '/users/edit', to: 'users#edit', as: 'users_edit'
Now in your view file where you have edit link, change the link to,
<%= link_to 'Edit', users_edit_path(:id => user.id) %>
Now this links to the edit action of users controller with an id parameter.
Now, in the users controller file,
class UsersController < ApplicationController
def edit
// params[:id] will be the ID that you sent through the view file.
#user = User.find(params[:id])
end
end
Thats it, you are done with your custom route, now the route will be users/edit instead of users/:id/edit
Im trying to figure out how to get a dynamic link for example
/users/user1/show
/users/user1/edit
or
/profiles/1/
How would I create a route that I could insert in my views like a view_profile_path and that would include the id or username of a user?
in config/routes.rb you need to add 1 simple line:
resources :users
and get all this stuff
HTTP Verb Path action named helper
GET /users index users_path
GET /users/new new new_user_path
POST /users create users_path
GET /users/:id show user_path(:id)
GET /users/:id/edit edit edit_user_path(:id)
PUT /users/:id update user_path(:id)
DELETE /users/:id destroy user_path(:id)
You can read about rails routes in the guides
Actually, I think you need something like this in config/routes.rb
resources :users do
resources :profiles
end
You can later check your REST-ful resource routes by issuing the command:
rake routes
This way you have a more natural approach to your routes in which your users will be bound to one or more profiles, therefore you may use something like:
user_profile_path(#user)
to create an appropriate link to a user's profile.
Users can be edited from a normal resourceful URI like:
/users/1/edit
The issue is that in my application, the edit user page is the home page or root route.
# routes.rb
root :to => "users#edit"
So, I tried to set #user to the current user in the absence of params[:id].
# app/controllers/users_controller.rb
def edit
#user = (params[:id]) ? User.find_by_id(params[:id]) : #current_user
end
Unfortunately, I'm having trouble getting the form to point properly.
# app/views/shared/_manage_users.rb
<%= form_tag follow_user_path, :id => 'update-following-form' %>
I'm getting:
No route matches {:action=>"follow", :controller=>"users"}
follow is a member route of the user resource and has a corresponding controller method. If I access the page via the URI at the top of this question, /users/1/edit, everything works fine and no error is thrown.
I'm not sure whether I'm going about this completely the wrong way or if I'm just not using the right form helper or something silly. How can I fix this issue, or what steps can I follow to debug it?
A member route expects the member to be passed as an argument. You route is expecting a User, like so:
follow_user_path(#user)
in your routes do this
resource :user
instead of
resources :users
now the id param is notin the url. you just need to ensure the user is logged in
I think you need to actually define follow_user in your routes.rb.
Example:
post "user/follow" => "users#follow", :as => :follow_user
I'm trying to make a simple link that will toggle my "status" attribute in my model from "pending" to "active". For example, when I first create a user, I set the status to "pending". Then when I show the list of users, I add a button that should change that user's status to "active". I tried this via a custom action (is this a good approach?) but I'm having trouble with the auto-generated named route.
in my user index.html.haml:
button_to "Manually Activate", activate_user_path
in routes.rb:
resources :users do
get :activate, :on => :member
in users_controller.rb:
def activate
#user = User.find(params[:id])
#user.update_attribute(:status, 'Active')
redirect_to #user
end
this seems to work when I go to say, /users/1/activate, as the status will update. However, the /users page doesn't show and gives me error:
ActionController::RoutingError in Users#index
No route matches {:action=>"activate", :controller=>"users"}
ie, it is having a problem with the activate_user_path I specified in my view. (However if I use another named-routes-style path that I haven't specified in my routes.rb to test it out, I get
NameError in Users#index
undefined local variable or method `blahblah_user_url' for #<#<Class:0x00000102bd5d50>:0x00000102bb9588>
so it seems that it knows it's in the routes.rb but something else is wrong? I'm really new to rails and would appreciate the help!
thanks!
Your link should look like this:
button_to "Manually Activate", activate_user_path(#user)
You need to add what user you want to activate.
A number of problems, I can see.
Firstly you should NOT update the database using a GET request.
Secondly button_to will provide you with an inplace form which when clicked will POST to your app.
Thirdly, the way you have your routes setup, you need to provide the user in the path (you've tested it by forming the url in the browser already).
run
rake routes
on the command prompt to see how your routes look and the name you can use to generate those routes.
I suspect you need to use
button_to "Manually Activate", activate_user_path(user)
(user or #user or whatever is the user object). In your button_to call and change the "get" to "post" in the routes file.
resources :users do
member do
post :activate
end
end