Hi Colin,
> Have a look at the Rails Guide on routing.

Good idea.  I'm still stuck on that.issue.  Thanks.

Best wishes,
Richard

On Jul 6, 3:20 am, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 6 July 2010 05:39, RichardOnRails
>
> <richarddummymailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
> > Hey Niels,
>
> > Thank you for excellent guidance. I read about routing but it's taking
> > me a long time to actually internalize this stuff.  Your analysis
> > gives me hope!
>
> Have a look at the Rails Guide on routing.  As always don't just read
> it, play with a test app and try variants of the examples in the
> guide.  That helps the ideas to sink in, at least it helps for me.
>
> Colin
>
>
>
> > Best wishes,
> > Richard
>
> > On Jul 5, 10:42 pm, Niels Meersschaert <nmeersscha...@mac.com> wrote:
> >> map.resources creates routes for the typical CRUD operations.  Since you 
> >> are adding an additional operation, you could revise your mapping to this:
>
> >> map.resources :users, :collection => {:sign_in => :get}
>
> >> This creates awkward route names & feels ugly as you are mucking with a 
> >> resource controller's routes.  It's probably better to do:
>
> >> map.sign_in "/sign_in", :controller => "users", :action => "sign_in"
>
> >> However, as logging in is really a session issue, rather than a user 
> >> concern, it would be even better to do something like this:
>
> >> map.sign_in "/sign_in", :controller => "sessions", :action => "new"
>
> >> Then move your sign_in method from users_controller to sessions_controller
>
> >> You will want a file like /path_to_controller_views/sign_in.html.erb to 
> >> handle it (assuming you are using erb).  Replace path_to_controller_views 
> >> with either /app/views/users or /app/views/sessions as appropriate.
>
> >> Niels
>
> >> On Jul 5, 2010, at 10:02 PM, RichardOnRails wrote:
>
> >> > I've got the following in config\routes.rb:
> >> > map.resources :users
>
> >> > In app\views\shared\_menu.erb, I've got:
> >> > Please sign in <%=  link_to
> >> > "here", :controller=>"user", :action=>"sign_in" -%>
>
> >> > In app\controllers\users_controller.rb
> >> >  def sign_in
> >> >  end
>
> >> > When I run the application,  I crash with:
> >> > Routing Error
> >> > No route matches "/user/sign_in" with {:method=>:get}
>
> >> > I presume I should add "def sign_in; [snip]; end" somewhere in:
> >> > app\views\users
>
> >> > But where, so as to satisfy the Rails routing scheme?
> >> > Is sufficient information provided above to answer this question?
> >> > I'm running Rails 2.3.5
>
> >> > Thanks in Advance,
> >> > Richard
>
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