I am using the public_activity gem. To use the gem, you do not need to create an activities controller for it. So I did not. However, I do have a comments controller. I want to have the following url helper for the comment's create action:
public_activity_activity_comments_path(#activity)
I have tried two things in my routes and both have failed. First, I tried using a namespace route:
namespace :public_activity do
resources :activity do
resources :comments
end
end
This produces the error:
ActionController::RoutingError - uninitialized constant PublicActivity::CommentsController:
Since I do not have a PublicActivity::Activities controller, I tried this instead:
get '/public_activity/activity/:activity_id/comments/new', to: 'comments#new'
post '/public_activity/activity/:activity_id/comments', to: 'comments#create'
However, this does not seem to produce any url helpers at all, as it gives me the following error:
NoMethodError - undefined method `public_activity_activity_comments_path' for #<#<Class:0x007f868e1b7760>:0x007f868e1afd58>:
The reason why I want a route like that is because in my comments view, the commentable can be any model, so I prefer to have a polymorphic form:
<%= form_for [commentable, Comment.new] do |f| %>
...
Am I out of luck? Will I have to hardcore the url for form_for?
IMHO, you only need to play with your polymorphic association and form, Public_Activity will record the activities if you correctly configure that any model of yours.
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I'm trying to pass 2 ids to the controller within the update action, but it does not stop, I do not recognize the first id, student_id. This is the definition of the route within routes.rb
post 'registers/students/:student_id/notes/:note_id/edit', to: 'registers/students/notes#update', as: :update_registers_student_note
While this is the part of the form_for, using the corresponding helper
<%= form_for #note, url: update_registers_student_note_path(:student_id,:note_id), method: :post do |f| %>
My question is how can I correctly pass the 2 ids of the corresponding resources, since the form only recognizes me note_id, and not student_id
Thank you
The helper should works. You also can use update_registers_student_note_path(student_id: 1, note_id: 12).
But I suggest you to use nested resources in your routes instead.
You can write somethings like that:
namespace :registers do
resources :students do
resources :notes
end
end
The new url helper will be registers_student_note_path(<note_id>, student_id: <student_id>) with method PATCH.
yes, you did put a right thing for url_helpers. You can try to open rails console and try it with these command
include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
update_registers_student_note_path(1,2)
you will see => "/registers/students/1/notes/2/edit"
I am trying to override a url helper that is being called from a form_for.
My controllers and models are all namespaced in the "Admin" module, and are resting in an admin folder. (So models/admin/foo.rb, controllers/admin/foo_controller.rb)
My routes are correct (I believe)
scope module: "admin" do
resources :foos do
resources :foo_details
end
end
Here is some code to demonstrate what I am attempting to do and where I get the error:
<%= form_for(#foo) do |f| %>
I am getting an error on the form for line, with this: "undefined method `admin_foos_path' for #<#:0x007f08fd7ffb90>.
When I run 'rake routes', I have a route for foos, but not admin_foos. I assume the form_for is trying to access admin_foos_path because of how the application was scaffolded.
Is there a way for me to override admin_foos_path to be foos_path or redirect it? I have tried searching for this issue and haven't been able to come up with much.
Thanks in advance.
Use the namespace directive
namespace :admin do
resources :foos do
resources :foo_details
end
end
Using scope just gives you foos_path, while namespace gives admin_foos_path which is needed for the #foo to work.
undefined method `admin_foos_path' for
To explain the error, #foo is a model instance of Admin::Foo not Foo, so form_for by default look for its resourceful route which in your case it is admin_foos. And because it can't find it, so is the error.
Is there a way for me to override admin_foos_path to be foos_path or
redirect it?
You can overwrite the URL of a form to your desired URL like below
<%= form_for(#foo, url: foos_path) do |f| %>
But I believe you need namespace instead of scope. I recommend to read about when to use scope and namespace in controller-namespaces-and-routing
The code below works well to create new transactions on the Invoice show view. It however doesn't work when in admin namespace. i.e /admin/invoices/1/ but works on /invoices/1/
show.html.erb
<%= form_for([#invoice, #invoice.transactions.build]) do |form| %>
....
transactions form input
routes.rb
resources :invoices do
resources :transactions
end
When calling form_for in a namespace route like /admin/invoices/1/, Rails will automatically append admin to your route. In other words, form_for([#invoice, #invoice.transactions.build]) would POST to a route like /admin/invoice/:id/transactions/ rather than /invoice/:id/transactions/.
To fix, explicitly set the URL of the form and use a route helper method to infer the correct route:
form_for(#invoice, url: invoice_transaction_url(#invoice.id))
Note that you may need to replace invoice_transaction_url with the correct route. Use rake routes to find the helper method that corresponds to the desired controller POST action.
I have a model called package, which has a controller package created under a name space admin.
so my resource in my routes is declared as below
namespace :admin do
resources :package
end
when I run rake routes
admin_package_index GET /admin/package(.:format) admin/package#index
POST /admin/package(.:format) admin/package#create
new_admin_package GET /admin/package/new(.:format) admin/package#new
edit_admin_package GET /admin/package/:id/edit(.:format) admin/package#edit
admin_package GET /admin/package/:id(.:format) admin/package#show
PUT /admin/package/:id(.:format) admin/package#update
DELETE /admin/package/:id(.:format) admin/package#destroy
If you see there is no helper method generated for create, which should have been admin_packages_path
controller
#newpackage = Package.new
view.html.erb
form_for [:admin,#newpackage] do |f|
end
is reporting that it is not able to find the admin_packages_path. Can somebody please explain how should we declare this in routes to generate the proper helper method for create ?
Your routes are named incorrectly, you're pairing a plural (resources) with a singular (:package).
If you will be working with multiple packages, you should declare resources :packages - this will generate you correctly named routes for all seven RESTful actions (index, show, new, create, edit, update, destroy).
If you are only working with a single package, you will need to specify the URL as an option for your form manually, eg.
form_for [:admin, #newpackage], url: admin_package_path do |f|
You really need to changes the routes to following:
namespace :admin do
resources :packages
end
I have a ChaptersController that does not have a direct route (i.e. site/chapters/:id) but only exists as a sub route for a BooksController (i.e. site/books/:id/chapters/:id). however, when I try to go to books/:id/chapters/new , I get the following routing error:
Showing .../app/views/chapters/_form.html.erb where line #1 raised:
No route matches {:controller=>"chapters"}
how can I fix this?
It seems like you are using nested routes in this manner:
resources :books do
resources :chapters
end
in which case you should have the named routes 'book_chapter' and 'book_chapters'. You can check this by running rake routes.
In your _form.html.erb partial you need to change this line:
<%= form_for(#chapter) do |f|%>
You need to specify the target URL of the form explicitly, and probably also handle different URLs for create and update scenarios. Try something like this:
<%= form_for(#chapter, :url => (#chapter.new_record? ? book_chapters_path(#book) : book_chapter_path(#book, #chapter) )) do |f| %>
I suppose there is wrong path in /app/views/chapters/_form.html.erb
Check what url is in tag. I suppose you forgot to change it to nested in books.
You may as well paste _form.html.erb here, so i will point it out :)