Beginner RoR Error After Generating Views (RailsSpace)

Question

I'm using RailsSpace to learn Ruby on Rails and am coming across an error after performing what seems like a simple command.

I used the Terminal to generate a new User controller with the views Index and Register:

$ rails generate controller User index register

And it had no problem with that, creating the files index.html.erb and register.html.erb as well as all the other expected files.

But when I visit http://localhost:3000/user/register, it comes back with the error message:

ROUTING ERROR: No route matches {:controller=>"user", :action=>"about"}

My routes.rb doesn't indicate any abnormalities:

RailsSpace::Application.routes.draw do
  get "user/index"

  get "user/register"

  get "site/index"

  get "site/about"

  get "site/help"

  root :to => "site#index"

end

Why does it try to route to the "About" action, and what other file can I edit to change this routing?

I'm using Rails 3 in case that matters.

looks like somewhere in you views (layouts/application.html.erb or user/register.html.erb) there is a link_to with this route: {:action=>"about"}, and rails uses current controller (user) to create the route. Is there such a link anywhere? — alony
It's been a while so, as I always do, I wonder what happened with this. I can't really say much without knowing what happens in the controller code for user/register. It wouldn't happen to do a re-direct to user/about, would it? Also, there is apparently a route for site/about. Is it possible that's where things were supposed to go, but there was a typo in the tutorial that sent it to user/about instead? — irrational John

Julian25 Julian25 · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-26T19:04:19

I would try hand coding in the route. In your case it would look like this:

match '/user/register' => 'users#register', :as => :register

This will definitely work and prevent the page /user/register from going to the about page. Let me know how things go and Ill try to continue to steer you in the right direction.

Beginner RoR Error After Generating Views (RailsSpace)

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