Keeps getting Routing Error.. what am I doing wrong?

Question

I am doing the very intro course in rails, and so far have completed the following

1. Made a new rails app: rails new shovell ("shovell" is the name of the app)
2. Installed all the gems and what not: bundle install
3. Generated a model rails generate model Story name link
4. Generated a controller rails generate controller Stories index

And now when I point to http://localhost:3000/stories, I get a error that says "Routing Error No route matches [GET] "/stories" "

And the following is my routes.rb:

Shovell::Application.routes.draw do
  get "stories/index"
# a bunch of comments
end

So I don't know what Im doing wrong, and why its not showing up the default welcome message, but rather giving me an error. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

However, if you do:

http://localhost:3000/stories/index

you may get the page, although that's not the rails way.

First thing, read and understand the rails routing guide

Then in order to fix your code, on the routing you can write

Shovell::Aplication.routes.draw do
  resources :stories
end

Or if you want custom routes instead of a rest resource

Shovel::Application.routes.draw do
  match "stores", to: "my_controller#my_action"
end

And you can also name the custom route

Shovel::Application.routes.draw do
  match "stores", to: "my_controller#my_action", as: :store_index
end

So with a name you can use the route name on your rails app

link_to("Store Index", store_index_path)

Answer 2

You've defined a route to /stories/index, but you've not defined one to /stories, which is why this is failing.

You should define this route like this:

 get '/stories', :to => "stories#index"

For more information, see The Routing Guide