Missing :id in my routes in rails4

Question

hi,

I am having a problem with my routes. Just noticed a strange thing. I have no :id in my show/edit/... routes.

This is my rake.routes output:

    WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.9.0, but has dynamically loaded 2.9.2
                      Prefix Verb   URI Pattern                           Controller#Action
          new_person_session GET    /persons/sign_in(.:format)            devise/sessions#new
              person_session POST   /persons/sign_in(.:format)            devise/sessions#create
      destroy_person_session DELETE /persons/sign_out(.:format)           devise/sessions#destroy
             person_password POST   /persons/password(.:format)           devise/passwords#create
         new_person_password GET    /persons/password/new(.:format)       devise/passwords#new
        edit_person_password GET    /persons/password/edit(.:format)      devise/passwords#edit
                             PATCH  /persons/password(.:format)           devise/passwords#update
                             PUT    /persons/password(.:format)           devise/passwords#update
           supplier_password POST   /suppliers/password(.:format)         devise/passwords#create
       new_supplier_password GET    /suppliers/password/new(.:format)     devise/passwords#new
      edit_supplier_password GET    /suppliers/password/edit(.:format)    devise/passwords#edit
                             PATCH  /suppliers/password(.:format)         devise/passwords#update
                             PUT    /suppliers/password(.:format)         devise/passwords#update
        facilitator_password POST   /facilitators/password(.:format)      devise/passwords#create
    new_facilitator_password GET    /facilitators/password/new(.:format)  devise/passwords#new
   edit_facilitator_password GET    /facilitators/password/edit(.:format) devise/passwords#edit
                             PATCH  /facilitators/password(.:format)      devise/passwords#update
                             PUT    /facilitators/password(.:format)      devise/passwords#update
           customer_password POST   /customers/password(.:format)         devise/passwords#create
       new_customer_password GET    /customers/password/new(.:format)     devise/passwords#new
      edit_customer_password GET    /customers/password/edit(.:format)    devise/passwords#edit
                             PATCH  /customers/password(.:format)         devise/passwords#update
                             PUT    /customers/password(.:format)         devise/passwords#update
cancel_customer_registration GET    /customers/cancel(.:format)           devise/registrations#cancel
       customer_registration POST   /customers(.:format)                  devise/registrations#create
   new_customer_registration GET    /customers/sign_up(.:format)          devise/registrations#new
  edit_customer_registration GET    /customers/edit(.:format)             devise/registrations#edit
                             PATCH  /customers(.:format)                  devise/registrations#update
                             PUT    /customers(.:format)                  devise/registrations#update
                             DELETE /customers(.:format)                  devise/registrations#destroy
                  home_index GET    /home/index(.:format)                 home#index
                        root GET    /                                     home#index
             suppliers_index GET    /suppliers/index(.:format)            suppliers#index
          facilitators_index GET    /facilitators/index(.:format)         facilitators#index
             customers_index GET    /customers/index(.:format)            customers#index
               new_customers GET    /customers/new(.:format)              customers#new
       customers_newCustomer POST   /customers/newCustomer(.:format)      customers#newCustomer
      customers_editCustomer GET    /customers/editCustomer(.:format)     customers#editCustomer
                     parties POST   /parties(.:format)                    parties#create
                 new_parties GET    /parties/new(.:format)                parties#new
                edit_parties GET    /parties/edit(.:format)               parties#edit
                             GET    /parties(.:format)                    parties#show
                             PATCH  /parties(.:format)                    parties#update
                             PUT    /parties(.:format)                    parties#update
                             DELETE /parties(.:format)                    parties#destroy
               parties_index GET    /parties/index(.:format)              parties#index
                visitors_new POST   /visitors/new(.:format)               visitors#new
             visitors_create POST   /visitors/create(.:format)            visitors#create

this is my routes.rb:

Rails.application.routes.draw do

 # devise_for :people
  devise_for :persons, :skip => :registrations
  devise_for :suppliers, :facilitators, skip: [:registrations, :sessions]
  devise_for :customers, :skip => :sessions

  # routes for all users
  authenticated :persons do
  end

  # routes only for customers
  authenticated :customers, lambda {|u| u.type == "Customer"} do
  end

  # routes only for companies
  authenticated :facilitators, lambda {|u| u.type == "Facilitator"} do
  end

  # routes only for suppliers
  authenticated :suppliers, lambda {|u| u.type == "Supplier"} do
  end

  # mde toevoegeingen
  get 'home/index'
  root to: "home#index"

  get 'suppliers/index'
  get 'facilitators/index'
  get 'customers/index'

  resource :customers, :only => :new
  match 'customers/newCustomer', to: 'customers#newCustomer', via: :post
  match 'customers/editCustomer', to: 'customers#editCustomer', via: :get

  resource :parties
  get 'parties/index'

  match 'visitors/new', to: 'visitors#new', via: :post
  match 'visitors/create', to: 'visitors#create', via: :post

end

My urls show a '.' instead of a '/' before the 'id'. this is an example url for the show method of a model:

http://localhost:3000/parties.2

The strange thing is that the normal routing is working. Strange because the dot is intended for defining the format.

Now I need the format becase of a remote: true behaviour I am implementing I am getting into troubles.

What did I do wrong?

regards Martijn

Answer 1

Just like Brad Werth said in comments.

the plural resources

resources :photos

creates

GET /photos Photos  index   display a list of all photos
GET /photos/new Photos  new return an HTML form for creating a new photo
POST    /photos Photos  create  create a new photo
GET /photos/1   Photos  show    display a specific photo
GET /photos/1/edit  Photos  edit    return an HTML form for editing a photo
PUT /photos/1   Photos  update  update a specific photo
DELETE  /photos/1   Photos  destroy delete a specific photo

in contrast to Singular Resources

You can also apply RESTful routing to singleton resources within your application. In this case, you use map.resource instead of map.resources and the route generation is slightly different. For example, a routing entry of

resource :geocoded

GET /geocoder/new   Geocoders   new return an HTML form for creating the new geocoder
POST    /geocoder   Geocoders   create  create the new geocoder
GET /geocoder   Geocoders   show    display the one and only geocoder resource
GET /geocoder/edit  Geocoders   edit    return an HTML form for editing the geocoder
PUT /geocoder   Geocoders   update  update the one and only geocoder resource
DELETE  /geocoder   Geocoders   destroy delete the geocode resource

Answer 2

Try to change:

resource :parties

To:

resources :parties