I have two actions in the controller:
def report
#user = User.find_by_slug(params[:slug])
end
def reportForm
#user = User.find_by_slug(params[:slug])
Thread.new do
mail = ...
end
#message = 'Thanks!'
end
and in routes:
# User report form
get "/user/:slug/report", to: "users#report"
# Catch report form and action
post "/user/:slug/report", to: 'users#reportForm'
And the view:
<form method="POST" action="/user/<%= #user.slug %>/reportForm">
...
But the problem is, that when I send the form, the action reportForm is not called and instead of that is only refresh the current page with the form.
What's wrong here?
Thank you guys.
Form Helpers
The first thing that's wrong is you're not using the form helpers that Rails provides - this is a problem because you'll end up with niggly little problems like the one you're receiving:
#config/routes.rb
resources :users do
get :report #-> domain.com/users/:id/report
post :reportForm #-> domain.com/users/:id/reportForm
end
#view
<%= form_tag user_reportForm_path(#user) do %>
...
<% end %>
Routes
The second issue you have is to do with your routes
You've set the following routes:
get "/user/:slug/report", to: "users#report"
post "/user/:slug/report", to: 'users#reportForm'
This means you've got to send the request to domain.com/user/user_slug/report. Your form sends the URL to reportForm...
You should see my routes above for the solution to this problem
But more importantly, you should read up on nested resources:
#config/routes.rb
resources :users do
match :report, action: "reportForm", via: [:get, :post] #-> domain.com/users/:id/report
end
Slug
Finally, you're trying to use params[:slug] in your controller
With the resourceful routes you should be using in Rails, you'll be passing params[:id] most of the time. This should not be an issue (what is contained in params[:id] can be anything).
I would highly recommend looking at a gem called friendly_id, which makes including slugs in your application a lot simpler:
#app/models/user.rb
Class User < ActiveRecord::Base
extend FriendlyId
friendly_id :name, use: [:slugged, :finders]
end
This will allow you to call:
#app/controllers/users_controller.rb
Class UsersController < ApplicationController
def reportForm
User.find params[:id] #-> will use either `id` or `slug`
end
end
Related
I'm new to rails, and I've already learnt how to do CRUD using scaffold and using resource, I wanna know how to Do CRUD without using resource, However what I want to do is create custom methods for CRUD in the controller that will be like the traditional CRUD model. Please help me with this.
Actually, for the action index / new / show / create / edit / update / destroy, this is a convention in Ruby On Rails
If I'm right and if you're trying to change their name using resources in routes.rb (Changing by exemple the new action into def my_restaurant), Rails will render
Unknown action The action 'new' could not be found for
RestaurantsController
Netherless, you can create some methods to perform some particular action into the index, and add them in the "private section" you want to hide them to the public. There is no routes attach to this method.
class RestaurantsController < ApplicationController
def index
#restautants = Restaurant.all
#restaurants.sort_by_name
end
private
def sort_by_name
#some action here
end
end
If you want to create your own name method, you can personnalise it but you can't use resources "shortcut" in the routes.rb
by exemple :
#reviews_controller.rb
class ReviewsController < AplicationController
def index
#reviews = Reviews.all
end
def update
#review = Review.find(review_params[:id])
end
def history
#some action
end
private
def review_params
params.require(:review).permit(:liked, :comment, :id)
end
end
Then add a view
#app/views/reviews/history.html.erb
Don't forget the routes :
Rails.application.routes.draw do
resources :reviews, only: [:index, :update] do
collection do
get :history
end
end
end
I hope this will help you and complete the previous answer.
as for your second question :
I still do have one doubt tho..... Will <%= form_for #post do |f| %>
this form be enough for new_post and edit_post, will it automatically
identify them? If that's not enough can you please tell me the what
comes at new_post.html.erb and edit_post.html.erb....Thanks again for
the help.
If the form is the same for your new_post and edit_post, i may suggest you to put into a partial file. (For this example I used simple_form gem)
#app/views/posts/_form.html.erb
<%= simple_form_for(#post) do |f| %>
<%= f.input :name, label: "post name" %>
<%= f.input :photo, as: :file %>
<%= f.submit "Save", class:"btn btn-small btn-success" %>
<% end %>
and then render the partial in your views new file.
#app/views/posts/new.html.erb
<div>
<h1>New Post</h1>
</div>
<%= render "form" %>
Well I hope I could help you with this answer.
Do not hesitate too to read ruby documention. You may find more information that you're looking for too.
My answer may be redundant but it's the better way for me to clearly explain it...
In oder to use your own custom methods you need to create them in your controller, setup the route and if needed create an view.
# PostsController
def create_post
# Do your create stuff here
end
def read_post
# Do your read stuff here
end
def update_post
# Do your update stuff here
end
def delete_post
# Do your delete stuff here
end
# routes
post '/create_post', to: 'posts#create_post'
get '/read_post/:id', to: 'posts#read_post'
put '/update_post/:id', to: 'posts#update_post'
delete 'delete_post/:id', to: 'posts#delete_post'
With the controller and routes setup you will only need a view for the read_post method. The best way to do that is create the file: views/posts/read_post.html.erb
There is 7 CRUD routes to Create, Read, Update and Delete.
Rails.application.routes.draw do
get "restaurants", to: "restaurants#index"
get "restaurants/new", to: "restaurants#new", as: :new_restaurant
post "restaurants", to: "restaurants#create"
# NB: The `show` route needs to be *after* `new` route.
get "restaurants/:id", to: "restaurants#show", as: :restaurant
get "restaurants/:id/edit", to: "restaurants#edit", as: :edit_restaurant
patch "restaurants/:id", to: "restaurants#update"
delete "restaurants/:id", to: "restaurants#destroy"
end
So once the route create, you can create in the controller, the action that you need
class RestaurantsController < ApplicationController
def index
#restaurants = Restaurant.all
end
end
and the view
app/views/restaurants/index.html.erb.
The best practice is to create only the routes that you will need and to work in silos.
1 route, 1 controller action, 1 view.
I'm following the Rails tutorial and making changes where appropriate, with the intention that my tutorial project will become a full-fledged production app after the completion of the tutorial.
I've run into a snag with the second model portion of the tutorial. Here is how I've written my second model.
In my policy.rb:
class Policy < ApplicationRecord
has_one :insured
end
In my insured.rb:
class Insured < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :policy
end
In my routes.rb:
resources :policies do
resource :insured
end
In my insureds_controller.rb:
def create
#policy = Policy.find(params[:policy_id])
# next line is raising the error
#insured = #policy.insured.create(insured_params)
redirect_to #insured
end
private
def insured_params
params.permit(:name, :address, :phone, :email)
end
I've inspected the #policy object with render plain: #policy.inspect and can confirm that ActiveRecord is retrieving the policy correctly. When I inspect the attributes of #policy, using render plain: #policy.attribute_names.inspect, I don't see an insured attribute, which I thought Rails was supposed to automatically manage for me. In the tutorial, an article has_many :comments, and a comment is supposedly easily created and associated with the parent article with this call: #article.comments.create(comment_params). I also noticed that the tutorial uses params.require(:comment).permit(...) while I have to use params.permit(...), after inspecting the params hash I saw that the :insured attributes existed in the top-level of the hash, instead of being tied to an :insured key within the hash.
I tried manually saving and assigning the #insured object like so:
def create
#policy = Policy.find(params[:policy_id])
#insured = Insured.new(insured_params)
if #insured.save
#policy.insured = #insured
redirect_to #insured
end
end
Only to run into the following error in my .../insureds/new.html.erb:
<h1>New Insured</h1>
<h1><%= #policy.policy_number %></h2>
<%= render 'form' %>
<%= link_to 'Cancel', policy_path(#policy) %>
Which derives from my partial form .../insureds/_form.html.erb:
# the following line raises the error
<%= form_with model: #insured, local: true do |form| %>
# html omitted for brevity
<% end %>
Error: 'undefined method insureds_path'. This is weird because when I inspect the HTML I can see the form action for this view is /policies/[:id]/insured.
Sorry for the massive wall of text, I wanted to show you guys that I did try to figure out what is going wrong.
There is an error in your config/routes.rb file:
resources :policies do
# change it for:
collection do
get 'insured', to: 'policies#show_insured', as: 'show_policy_insured'
# maybe unnecessary to be here
# get 'insured/new', to: 'insureds#new', as: 'new_policy_insured'
# post 'insured/create', to: 'insureds#create', as: 'create_policy_insured'
# delete 'insured/delete', to: 'insureds#delete', as: 'delete_policy_insured'
end
end
# add resources here
resources :insureds
In policy_controller.rb:
def show_insured # 'policy/:id/insureds/
end
In insureds_controller.rb:
def show # '/insureds/:id'
end
def create
...
redirect_to show_policy_insured && return if #insured_policy
end
# before_filter or before_action
#policy = Policy.find(params[:id])
#insured_policy = #policy.insured
Check it and run this to see your routes:
$ bundle exec rake routes
get /policies/:id/insured => 'policies_controller#show_insured'
get /insureds/:id => 'insureds_controller#show'
get /insured/new => 'insureds_controller#new'
post /insureds/create => 'insureds_controller#create'
delete /insureds/:id/delete => 'insureds_controller#delete'
#maguri, that's not all necessary. The stumbling block I was running into was that Rails couldn't automatically determine the correct routes. When I provided my own urls in the form_with declarations, everything went smoothly.
Observe the following change in my _form.html.erb for the Insured model, which belongs_to Policy, which has_one Insured.
<%= form_with model: #insured, url: policy_insured_path(#policy) local: true do |form| %>
In my updated insureds_controller.rb file, using #Phlip's suggestion:
def create
#policy = Policy.find(params[:policy_id])
#insured = #policy.create_insured(insured_params)
if #policy.insured.save
redirect_to policy_insured_path(params[:policy_id])
else
render 'new'
end
end
This allows me to keep routes.rb clean and simple:
resources :policies do
resource: insured
end
Thank you for your answer, it helped me discover the problem was with my routes.
could one advise me how to get a url like this in rails
http://www.example.com/users/5/ian
i tried the below but unsure:
route file:
devise_for :users
resources :users do
resources :socials
end
get '/users/:id/:firstname', controller: 'users', action: 'show'
users_controller.rb
def show
#user = User.find(params[:id], params[:firstname])
end
If you are trying to achieve 'friendly urls' then I suggest using this:
You don't have to create a special route:
get '/users/:id', controller: 'users', action: 'show'
Instead you have your model overwrite the to_param method:
class User
...
def to_param
"#{id}-#{firstname.try(:parameterize)}"
end
...
end
The url helper calls to_param to build the urls. If you overwrite it this way, you will receive a url like this:
http://localhost:3000/users/1-artloe
The rails find method calls .to_i on the params[:id] which, thankfully, interprets strings as number until it arrives at a character that can't become a number.
Examples:
'123abcde'.to_i # 123
'123-asdf'.to_i # 123
'asdf-123'.to_i # 0
So except for overwriting to_param, you don't have to do anything.
Try replacing this
def show
#user = User.find_by_id_and_firstname(params[:id], params[:firstname])
end
If what you are trying accomplish is "friendly urls" you would do it by:
# GET /users/1
# GET /users/joe
def show
#user = User.find_by!('id = :x OR firstname = :x', x: params[:id])
end
However you must ensure that property you are using in URLs is URL safe and unique. Usually a separate username or slug field is used.
Nothing special is needed in terms of routes.
These gems provide "friendly urls":
stringex
friendly_id
Hi everybody I'm from the old school using rails 2.
Actually I'm using rails 4 and I'm trying to find a way to create methods on the controller without writting
On RAILS 2 used: (only needed to write the name on the controller)
#controller
def report_a
end
def report_b
end
def report_c
end
...and whatever def
#ROUTES
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'
On RAILS 4
#controller
def report_a
end
def report_b
end
def report_c
end
#ROUTES
match ':controller(/:action(/:id(.:format)))', :via => [:get, :post]
The problem is when I create a view report like this: (views/reports/report_a.html.erb)
<%= form_tag :action=>"report_a" do %>
<% end %>
I get this message:
No route matches [GET] "/reports/report_a"
To resolve this issue and doing Rails instruccions works like this:
#controller
def report_a
#users= User.search(params[:name])
end
def result_report_a
#users= User.search(params[:name])
end
#view/reports/report_a.html.erb
<%= form_tag :action=>"result_report_a" do %>
<% end %>
#routes.rb
get "reports#report_a"
post "reports#result_report_a"
get "reports#report_b"
post "reports#result_report_b"
get "reports#report_c"
post "reports#result_report_c"
Also I found this better way:
#controller reports.rb
def search_report_a
report_a
render :report_a
end
def report_a
#users = User.where(:name=>params[:name])
end
def search_report_b
report_b
render :report_b
end
def report_b
#users = User.where(:address=>params[:address])
end
...
#Routes.rb
resources :users do
match 'search_report_a', :via => [:post,:get], :on => :collection
match 'search_report_b', :via => [:post,:get], :on => :collection
...
end
Is there any other way to create methods without adding all inside ROUTES.RB ?
Any suggestions or the only way is adding get and post?
Imagine a case where you have several methods.
Best approach in Rails is to use REST architecture. Your controller should be able to view, create, update and destroy some resource (of course all actions are not mandatory).
For example:
def ReportsController
def index
# Actions to show links to all possible reports
end
def show
# Show report based on params
end
end
Your #show method may show any of report (report_a, report_b, etc) just by checking param from GET request.
And you don't need to make all logics inside #show method. It would be better to place report-related logic in, maybe, some service objects.
I want users to have codes to invite other users to the website. I know how I could generate random strings but how can I make it so that each user has a link such as "mysite.com/fFD2Zad" that uses the code instead of having a bulky link like "mysite.com/?var=fFD2Zad"?
Rails.application.routes.draw do
get '/:invitation_code', to: 'users#welcome'
end
class UsersController < ApplicationController
def welcome
p params
end
end
Check yourserver.com/fFD2Zad
#=> {"controller"=>"users", "action"=>"welcome", "invitation_code"=>"fFD2Zad"}
You can add the lowest priority route in the end of routes.rb:
get '/:user_code', to: 'users#profile', user_code: /[a-zA-Z0-9]{7}/
And process it in your controller:
def profile
# => params[:user_code]
...
end