No route matches - Rails - ruby-on-rails

Question

Setting up my second project in Rails (first not following a tutorial) and have run into a problem I can't solve with my routes. Everything works as I'd like it to with my routes.rb file like:
AnimalApp::Application.routes.draw do
root to: 'static_pages#index'
# resources :animal
match '/help', to: 'static_pages#help'
match '/about', to: 'static_pages#about'
match '/contact', to: 'static_pages#contact'
match '/league', to: 'static_pages#league'
match '/animal', to: 'animal#new'
Except I can't access my animals! Going to /animal/1 throws an error :
No route matches [GET] "/animal/1"
To fix this I changed my routes as follows:
AnimalApp::Application.routes.draw do
root to: 'static_pages#index'
resources :animal
match '/help', to: 'static_pages#help'
match '/about', to: 'static_pages#about'
match '/contact', to: 'static_pages#contact'
match '/league', to: 'static_pages#league'
#match '/animal', to: 'animal#new'
However, when I try and view any of the other pages on my site I get the following error:
No route matches {:action=>"show", :controller=>"animal"}
For more information see below my controllers:
(static pages)
class StaticPagesController < ApplicationController
def help
end
def league
end
def contact
end
def about
end
def index
end
def show
end
end
animals controller
class AnimalController < ApplicationController
def new
#animal = Animal.new
end
def show
#animal = Animal.new
end
end
And, also, I've run rake routes I get:
animal_index GET /animal(.:format) animal#index
POST /animal(.:format) animal#create
new_animal GET /animal/new(.:format) animal#new
edit_animal GET /animal/:id/edit(.:format) animal#edit
animal GET /animal/:id(.:format) animal#show
PUT /animal/:id(.:format) animal#update
DELETE /animal/:id(.:format) animal#destroy
root / static_pages#index
help /help(.:format) static_pages#help
about /about(.:format) static_pages#about
contact /contact(.:format) static_pages#contact
league /league(.:format) static_pages#league
/animal(.:format) animal#new
Does anybody have any idea how I can get my site back and also allow myself to see objects in my animal database under the URI /animal/[:id]?

Answer 1

Make it resources :animals instead of resources :animal
rake routes should show the following output:
animals GET /animals(.:format) animals#index
POST /animals(.:format) animals#create
new_animal GET /animals/new(.:format) animals#new
edit_animal GET /animals/:id/edit(.:format) animals#edit
animal GET /animals/:id(.:format) animals#show
PUT /animals/:id(.:format) animals#update
DELETE /animals/:id(.:format) animals#destroy