How do I write a route in Rails 5 so that when a user visits

http:www.mysite.com/volunteer_events/add_shift

it fires the add_shift method inside the volunteer_events controller

I have spent hours staring at the routing page here...https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v5.0.7/routing.html ...and it's just turning into a giant wall of text.

This is what I currently have...

  get '/volunteer_events/add_shift', to: 'volunteer_events#add_shift'

But I'm getting an error

Couldn't find VolunteerEvent with 'id'=add_shift

I know this is simple...I'm just very tired and I don't remember.

CodePudding user response：

How does the rest of your route.rb file look?

Routes are interpreted from top to bottom with routes defined higher having a higher precedence. My assumption is that you have something like this in the routes

resources :volunteer_events
get '/volunteer_events/add_shift', to: 'volunteer_events#add_shift'

which would translate to something like this

get '/volunteer_events/:id', to: 'volunteer_events#show'
get '/volunteer_events/add_shift', to: 'volunteer_events#add_shift'

Now your first route has always precedence over the second one and add_shift will always be interpreted as the id for the show route (note the :id in the show routes which is a parameter). Just flip the two so /volunteer_events/add_shift will be matched before your show route and you should be good.