POST to route not working, despite route displaying in "rake routes" - ruby-on-rails

I have the following route, that appears in the list when I perform "rake routes":
page_upload_image POST /pages/:page_id/upload_image(.:format) pages#upload_image
I also have the following in my routes file:
resources :pages do
post :sort, :on => :collection
post :upload_image, :on => :collection
end
I'm then using JavaScript to capture and POST values pulled from the following:
%form.new-page-image{:class => "hide", :action => "/pages/#{#page.id}/upload_image"}
%input.page_image{:type => "file", :name => "page[image]", :multiple => "true"}
I have the following for my upload_image action in my pages controller:
def upload_image
image = params[:page][:image]
uploader = PageImageUploader.new
uploader.store!(image)
render json: uploader.to_json
end
For some reason, even though the route exists, when I post to it, I get the following:
ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [POST] "/pages/1/upload_image"):
I'm wondering why a route, that appears legitimate (shows up properly when executing rake routes) would return this error when I try to post to it.

Try changing your routes to this instead, as it looks like you want a member route instead of a collection route:
resources :pages do
post :sort, :on => :collection
post :upload_image, :on => :member
end
I would also advise against using interpolation in the route, as it can quickly get long and messy. Instead try to name your routes using as: and call them using the names instead.

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Action name mistaken as show id

I'm still new to Rails, and so I have this issue.
I have a controller name Client. In the routing I have:
resources :clients do
get 'confirmation_import/:page', action: :confirmation_import, on: :collection, :defaults => {:page => 1}
collection do
get :autocomplete
post :confirmation_import
post :import
end
end
As you can see, I'm using pagination. When I go back to the first page though, the page param is not used, so the link becomes /clients/confirmation_import. From there I'm getting an error because a before_action for show action is being used, and it says my id param is confirmation_import. How do I fix this?
Generally routes are matched from top to bottom and as the route for show action is defined before the route for confirmation_report action it is routing to show action with confirmation_report as id.
So, put your route for confirmation_report before show route as below:
get 'clients/confirmation_import/:page' => 'clients#confirmation_import, :defaults => {:page => 1}
resources :clients do
collection do
get :autocomplete
post :confirmation_import
post :import
end
end

Named routes inserting a . instead of a /

I've been having trouble with named routes in rails 4 (Named route for non resource nesting).
I've moved onto something else, but still struggling with the same problem of named routes for non resource urls.
This is my route from rake routes:
GET /messages/:id/report/:reply_token(.:format) messages#report
messages POST /messages(.:format) messages#create
and my routes.rb
resources :messages, only: [:create] do
member do
get 'report/:reply_token', :action => 'report'#, :as => :message
end
end
Because of the problem I had in my post linked at the top, I'm trying to get a url to the /messages/:id/report/:reply_token route by doing the following:
"#{messages_url(#message, :host => "localhost:3000")}/report/#{#message.reply_token}"
But it's giving me this:
http://localhost:3000/messages.110/report/6bBw22TdaRYcQ3iVzW1ZwA
Why is there a . between the 'messages' and the '110' (message_id)?
Instead of #message, I've also tried #message.id in the messages_url(). I've also tried this: report_message_path(message_id: #message.id, reply_token: #message.reply_token) but got the same error as in my question linked above. I've also tried message_url() instead but it gives undefined method 'message_url'.
You are mixing up routes. messages_url is to generate a URL for create action which does not have ID in its route. Rails assumes 110 is the format and uses the second route (which is named as messages)
messages POST /messages(.:format)
As a solution, name your route like this and also add show action
resources :messages, only: [:create,:show] do
member do
get 'report/:reply_token', :action => 'report' , :as => :custom_message
end
end
And,
custom_message_url(#message, :host => "localhost:3000")
More about naming routes here.
Answerd here already - Rails _path helper generating path with format not id

Cleaning up Rails routes with non-restful actions

I have a subscriptions controller with routes that look like this:
get 'user/:user_id/subscription_requests' => 'subscriptions#index', as: :subscription_requests
post 'user/:user_id/subscribe' => 'subscriptions#subscribe', as: :user_subscribe
post 'user/:user_id/unsubscribe' => 'subscriptions#unsubscribe', as: :user_unsubscribe
post 'user/:user_id/request_subscription' => 'subscriptions#request_subscription', as: :request_user_subscription
post 'user/:user_id/accept_subscription' => 'subscriptions#accept', as: :accept_subscription_request
post 'user/:user_id/reject_subscription' => 'subscriptions#reject', as: :reject_subscription_request
All of them except index are non-restful actions. How do you make this cleaner in the routes file using something like resources while keeping the user/:user_id/ in the path?
Update for clarity:
I'm trying to avoid listing the routes line by line and instead do something like what rails provides with the restful actions. Something like:
resources :subscription_requests, :only => [:subscribe, :unsubscribe, :reject, :accept, etc]
You can use the member function of routing.
resources :user, to: 'subscriptions', :only => [] do
member do
get 'subscription_requests'
post 'subscribe'
etc
end
end
And this will produce routes such as:
subscription_requests_user GET /user/:id/subscription_requests(.:format) subscriptions#subscription_requests
subscribe_user POST /user/:id/subscribe(.:format) subscriptions#subscribe
Docs: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#adding-more-restful-actions

Why resources on collection has different routing helper then regular post

In my routes.rb I had this resource
resources :home_screen_buttons do
post :update_multiple, :on => :collection
end
update_multiple helper is update_multiple_home_screen_buttons
Then I decided to remove resource because i need only update_multiple method in my controller, so I changed routes.rb to
post "home_screen_buttons/update_multiple"
It create helper home_screen_buttons_update_multiple instead of update_multiple_home_screen_buttons
Why it has different routing helper name?
It makes sense that :on => :collection has different helper then :on => :member, but is there any other way then adding :as => :update_multiple_home_screen_buttons to my post method for same behavior?
This is how Rails does this. When match is used, it maps the URI to the action and creates the corresponding helper path as controller_action_path
but when it is used as collection, that becomes RESTful action for that resource and Rails gives it a logical name relating to a collection. As quoted as an example here:
resources :photos do
collection do
get 'search'
end
end
generates search_photos_path.
You could have done this:
resources :home_screen_buttons, :only => [:update_multiple] do
post :update_multiple, :on => :collection
end

How to add a custom RESTful route to a Rails app?

I'm reading these two pages
resources
Adding more RESTful actions
The Rails Guides page shows
map.resources :photos, :new => { :upload => :post }
And its corresponding URL
/photos/upload
This looks wonderful.
My routes.rb shows this
map.resources :users, :new => { :signup => :get, :register => :post }
When I do: [~/my_app]$ rake routes
I see the two new routes added
signup_new_user GET /users/new/signup(.:format)
register_new_user POST /users/new/register(.:format)
Note the inclusion of /new! I don't want that. I just want /users/signup and /users/register (as described in the Rails Routing Guide).
Any help?
When you expose a controller as a resource, following actions are automatically added:
show
index
new
create
edit
update
destroy
These actions can be categorized in to two groups:
:member actions
The URL for the member action has the id of the target resource. E.g:
users/1/edit
users/1
You can think of :member action as an instance method on a class. It always applies on an existing resource.
Default member actions: show, edit, update, destroy
:collection actions
The URL for the :collection action does not contain the id of the target resource. E.g:
users/login
users/register
You can think of :collection action as a static method on a class.
Default collection actions: index, new, create
In your case you need two new actions for registration. These actions belong to :collection type( as you do not have the id of the user while submitting these actions). Your route can be as follows:
map.resources :users, :collection => { :signup => :get, :register => :post }
The URL for the actions are as follows:
users/signup
users/register
If you want to remove a standard action generated by Rails use :except/:only options:
map.resources :foo, :only => :show
map.resources :foo, :except => [:destroy, :show]
Edit 1
I usually treat the confirmation action as a :member action. In this case params[id] will contain the confirmation code.
Route configuration:
map.resources :users, :member => { :confirm => :get}
URL
/users/xab3454a/confirm
confirm_user_path(:id => #user.confirmation_code) # returns the URL above
Controller
class UsersController < ApplicationController
def confirm
# assuming you have an attribute called `confirmation_code` in `users` table
# and you have added a uniq index on the column!!
if User.find_by_confirmation_code(params[id])
# success
else
# error
end
end
end
This can be taken as just another syntax -- something good to know may be.
Syntax 1:
resources :users do
member do
get 'signup'
post 'register'
end
end
Rake Route Output will include
signup_users GET /users/signup(.:format) {:action=>"signup", :controller=>"users"}
register_users POST /users/register(.:format) {:action=>"register", :controller=>"use
rs"}
Syntax 2:
If you have only one collection route
resources :users do
get 'signup', :on => :collection
end
If i'm understanding your question right, you just want to rename the urls of the new and create actions.
This would be done like so:
map.resources :users, :path_names => {:new => 'signup', :create => 'register'}
If you really would like to add new routes with corresponding controller actions, then Damiens answer is the way to go.
The new option allows you to create new routes for creating new objects. That's why they're prefixed with that term.
What you're looking for is the :collection option.
map.resources :users, :collection => { :signup => :get, :register => :post }
Which will create the /users/signup and /users/register urls.

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