Ajax Posting via jQuery to custom controller method not working - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm having an issue posting data to my custom controller methods via a jquery ajax post.
I have the following rails myPlayer.erb.html:
<% form_for #playersonline, :url => game_index_path, :html => { :method => :put, :class => "block", :id => "playersOnline_form" } do |f| %>
<% #playersonline.each do |member| %>
<li>
<div class="playerDetails">
<div class="playerNickname"><%= member.nickname %></div>
<div class="playerPlayLink">
<input type="button" class="submit_button playPlayer" id="<%= member.nickname %>" value="Play" />
</div>
</div>
</li>
<% end %>
<p class="morePlayers">
View more players >>
</p>
<% end %>
The forms html looks like this when rendered:
<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/game" class="block" id="playersOnline_form" method="post">
And the following jQuery code that attaches event handllers to each button.
SITE.Game = function() {
$('.playPlayer').live('click',
function() {
SITE.Game.sendGameRequest()
}
);
}
SITE.Game.sendGameRequest = function() {
$.post('/game/test,{"testData": "One", "testDataAgain": "Two"}, function(result) { console.log("data returned = " + result); }, "json")
}
So when I click a button, and the event fires making the ajax request I get the following error back:
Started POST "/game/test" for 127.0.0.1 at 2011-03-13 00:05:59 +0000
ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches "/game/test"):
My controller looks like this, and I can see from the server output that its not going into my test method:
class GameController < ApplicationController
def test
puts "---------------------------"
puts "GAME TEST WORKING"
puts "---------------------------"
end
def index
#returnMember = ["Tom","Pete"]
respond_to do |format|
format.json { render :json => #returnMember.to_json }
end
end
end
I have the following in my routes also:
resources :game
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
EDIT
In response to nzifnab reply. I added:
resource :game do
member do
post 'test'
end
end
But am now getting:
ActionController::RoutingError (uninitialized constant GamesController):
EDIT 2
Fixed above by changing controller to GamesControllor from GameController.
Now getting the error:
undefined local variable or method `games_index_path'
<% form_for #playersonline, :url => games_index_path, :html => { :method => :put, :class => "block", :id => "playersOnline_form" } do |f| %
>
See my controller at beginning of issue.
EDIT 3
Fix for Edit 2 is quite simple! Changed url to games_path

Answer 1

resources :game sets up a RESTful route for your controller which automatically enables the show, create, new, edit, update, and destroy actions. If you want it to hit the test action you need to do this in your routes file:
resource :game do
member do
post :test
end
end
Or if you don't need all of those other RESTful routes you can do this:
match 'game/test' => 'game#test'
That's for rails 3. In rails 2.3.x the resourceful way would be like this:
resource :game, :members => {:test => :post}
I believe
Rails also expects your controllers to be named in the plural format. So a file in controllers/games_controller.rb should have the class GamesController < ApplicationController as it's class contents.
I would juse rename the file and/or controller to match the convention. But if you really need to keep it named singular for some reason you can add this to your routes file:
resource :game, :controller => 'game' do
# Other stuff here
end
I think that would fix it. But it's more usual for people to just pluralize their controller names.

Answer 2

It's because of your data type. It depends what kinda datatype you want but this is how you could do html and json:
JSON example:
SITE.Game.sendGameRequest = function() {
$.post('/game/test.json,{"testData": "One", "testDataAgain": "Two"}, function(result) {
console.log("data returned = " + result); }, "json")
}
And HTML:
SITE.Game.sendGameRequest = function() {
$.post('/game/test.html,{"testData": "One", "testDataAgain": "Two"}, function(result) { console.log("data returned = " + result); }, "html")
}
then in your controller you need to check the format:
class GameController < ApplicationController
def test
responds_to |format|
format.html #need for ajax with html datatype
format.json #need for ajax with json datatype
end
end
end
Change log:
[changed] the paths for your ajax request
[added] responds_to helper in your controller
And don't forget to declare the route in your routes.rb:
map.resources :games