sure, if you wanted to name it ":company_id=>@company.id" then in the routes file you would have to do
map.connect ':controller/:action/:company_id' or else it will interpet as one cgi query parameter regards On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:01 PM, richardsugg <richards...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I got around it, but I'd like to know why the original way > didn't work because I'm certain this will come up again. Here's what > I did: > > I changed the link_to to be > > <%= link_to "people", :controller => "people", :action => > "by_company", :id => @company.id %> > > which created the link > > http://my-server-name/people/by_company/1 > > Thanks for looking at this. I'm sure this is a very easy question for > someone who has done this a while, but that would not (yet) be me :) > > > On Jun 22, 2:55 pm, richardsugg <richards...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Routes file: > > > > ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map| > > map.resources :people > > map.resources :users > > map.root :controller => "homepage" > > map.connect ':controller/:action/:id' > > map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format' > > end' > > > > On Jun 22, 2:51 pm, Rui Carvalho <rui.hmcarva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > How do you have this on your routes file? > > > > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:34 PM, richardsugg <richards...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I want to show a page that lists people that belong to a particular > > > > company (each person has a company_id). My link_to looks like > > > > > > <%= link_to "people", :controller => "people", :action => > > > > "by_company", :company_id => @company.id %> > > > > > > which produces the link > > > > > >http://my-server-name/people/by_company?company_id=1 > > > > > > However, it errors with > > > > > > Couldn't find Person with ID=by_company > > > > {"id"=>"by_company", > > > > "company_id"=>"1"} > > > > > > Why would the id be set to "by_company"? Shouldn't that be the > > > > action? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > -- > > > > 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-t...@googlegroups.com. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com><rubyonrails-talk%2Bunsubscrib > e...@googlegroups.com> > > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- > 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-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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-t...@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.
