Tim Shaffer wrote in post #955737: > > My apologies. I was not intending to be derogatory.
I get frustrated after reading and researching routes in 4 different places books and websites and not understanding what they explaining. Then have some say " go read about it"..like I was simpy trying to take a short cut. I'm probable hypersensitive I do much better in C#, but get tierd of it's criptic Database managment. But there are so many magic words in ruby that if I put it down for a month I forget the basic syntax.... > Supplying controller and action to the link_to method is one of the > most fundamental things you can do in Rails. Instead of just giving > you the answer (after giving you a hint how to find it), I was > pointing you to the documentation so you may hopefully learn how to do > what you wanted, and also learn how to use the documentation to > quickly find answers to simple questions in the future. I new it was a simple question...and I knew what the problem was ...but for the life of me the syntax wasn't coming... and there was some thing fundametal I wasn't getting .. maybe it's take a break after 4 hours or some thing lol >> from the the index view if we hit the edit button it takes us to the >> mechanizm to get from the show page to the print_label page using the >> current :id as the scaffold built for getting from index to edit. > > When you specify "resources :tire" in routes.rb, it creates a default ok so thats all you put in routes.rb file? "resource :tire" ? I can't seem to get my head around what the heck that would do... ruby magic makes my head hurt.... doing this creates the helper method so I can just go _path? > set of named routes and the helper methods to go along with them. > Again, this is basic rails functionality and is explained in-depth in > the Routing guide: > > http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html > >> So that link you gave me doesn't really explain how to make a route or >> the sytax to use to call print_label and send it the current :id. > > If you scroll down to the third example under the link_to method, it > clearly shows how to create a link using a controller, action, and id. > > link_to "Profile", :controller => "profiles", :action => "show", :id > => @profile > > So in your case, you could use the following syntax: > > link_to "Print Label", :controller => "tires", :action => > "print_label", :id => @tire I am confused again ... when the scaffold built the link_to .. to the edit page it's syntax does not have the hashes... nor does it have :controller, :action, :id > > Although it's probably preferable to add another RESTful action. Then > you would be able to use a print_label_tire_path helper like you have > been trying to do. This again is explained in the Routing guide. Yes, I was trying the restful approach then every thing got into routes _path is a restful technique? always? To use path were would the restful action go ..in the model? or in the routes.rb? > Best of luck. I get the the link_to now though... -- 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-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.
