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Chris Dellinger
Chris Dellinger

Reputation: 2352

Rails controller code appears to be ignored for a custom route

I've got a very weird scenario where it appears that a controller action method is being ignored in a rails app. I'm assuming this is not possible, but I need someone to help me see the "forest for the trees" :) Here is what I have. First a custom route:

 match 'topusers/:skill', :to => 'skills#topusers', :as => :top_users

Then in my controller I have reduced it down to the following:class SkillsController < ApplicationController

class SkillsController < ApplicationController

        ....

    def top_users
        @skills = Skill.all
    end

        ....
end

My view has been reduced to the following

<% @skills.each do |skill| %>
   <%= skill.name %>
<% end %>

With this I receive an error of "undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass" on the @skills.each line. I know there is data in the skills table and I can see that via rails console. To troubleshoot I did a render :text => @skills.to_yaml and it appeared to be ignored. This confused me, so I then completely removed the top_users method and still got the same error which confused me because I thought rails would scream at me for not having a top_users method. I then thought that rails might be looking at a different controller, so I changed the name of my controller from SkillsController to SkillsXXXController. This time rails did yell at me telling it couldn't find the controller, so I know it was at least looking at the right controller.

So, any idea of why I am seeing this behavior? Does my custom route look correct? Has anyone seen this type of behavior before?

Thanks in advance

Chris

Upvotes: 0

Views: 258

Answers (1)

botbot
botbot

Reputation: 7359

are you missing an underscore in your match route? 'skills#topusers'. looks like you have defined your controller method at top_users.

Upvotes: 1

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