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Sonny Black
Sonny Black

Reputation: 1617

No route matches [POST] "/sessions/new" (rails 4 in action)

I'm following the Rails 4 In action book and I'm running into the following error:

No route matches [POST] "/sessions/new"

I'm not sure why, as I've followed the tutorial to a T. Which leaves me to believe the tutorial itself is flawed. Anyhow, for some reason it's posting to sessions#new when it should be posting to sessions#create. What am I doing wrong?

sessions_controller.rb

class SessionsController < ApplicationController
  def new
  end

  def create
    user = User.where(:name => params[:signin][:name]).first
      if user && user.authenticate(params[:signin][:password])
        session[:user_id] = user.id
        flash[:notice] = "Signed in successfully."
        redirect_to root_url
      else
    flash[:error] = "Sorry."
    render :new
    end
  end
end

sessions/new.html.erb

<h1>Sign in</h1>
<%= form_for :signin, method: "POST" do |f| %>
  <p>
  <%= f.label :name %><br />
  <%= f.text_field :name %>
  </p>
  <p>
  <%= f.label :password %><br />
  <%= f.password_field :password %>
  </p>
<%= f.submit "Sign in" %>
<% end %>

routes.rb

  get "/signin", to: "sessions#new"
  post "/signin", to: "sessions#create"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1373

Answers (1)

JTG
JTG

Reputation: 8826

You are correct there is an error in this book.

When you have a form for tag

<%= form_for :signin, method: "POST" do |f| %>

If rails doesn't know what :signin means, then it will simply copy the current url and will submit the form to that url (in this case 'sessions/new'), using the post verb (whether you specify it or not!)

<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/sessions/new" method="post">
....

Obviously, that's not necessarily what you want because you don't have a /sessions/new for post HTTP verb, I think the easiest solution would be to specify a route

post "/signin", to: "sessions#create", as: "signin"

and in your form_for

<%= form_for signin_path do |f| %>

Upvotes: 5

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