The reason it worked is because form_for was trying to resolve a RESTful route because it was passed a variable and not a constant. By either changing the variable to a constant, or creating the map.resources entry to create the RESTful routes, the problem is solved.
I hope that helps! Jim Schiel On Apr 7, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Mace Windu wrote: > > Colin Law wrote: >> 2009/4/7 Mace Windu <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> >> >>> >>> Jim Schiel wrote: >>>> Just a quick thought -- try :employ, instead of @employ in the >>>> form_for statement. >>> >>> This worked thank you. >> >> >> Can someone explain why please? I have both form_for(@blah) and >> form_for >> :blah and both appear to work ok for me. >> Colin > > good question I don't know. I'm new to rails > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---