From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2008-06-19T22:16:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Magic 'show' action

On 19 Jun 2008, at 12:55, Alex Birkett wrote:
> I can't understand why my action, 'login' is being redirected to  
> 'show'
> with login passed as an 'id'.
>
> So when I go to to the url http://localhost:3000/users/login
>
> Development.log shows:
> Processing UsersController#show (for 127.0.0.1 at 2008-06-19 12:45:04)
> [GET]
>  Session ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Parameters: {"action"=>"show", "id"=>"login", "controller"=>"users"}
>
> When I got to the url: http://localhost:3000/users/login/1
>
> Development.log shows:
> Processing UsersController#login (for 127.0.0.1 at 2008-06-19  
> 12:42:20)
> [GET]
>  Session ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Parameters: {"action"=>"login", "id"=>"1", "controller"=>"users"}
>
> and the login page loads.
>
> I've grepped the whole project and I can't find reference to the  
> 'show'
> action anywhere.
>
> My controller is attached.

You'll probably get a more useful answer from the rails mailing list,  
but at a rough guess I'd suggest that you read your routes.rb file and  
add a named route for your login controller.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
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