CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-rails
rubyist
rubyist

Reputation: 3132

undefined method contact_path in rails form

I have my routes defined as below

get 'contacts/new', to: 'contacts#new'

And in my ContactsController I have defined as below

def new
  @contact = Contact.new
end

In views contacts/new/_form.html.erb I have structured form as below

<%= form_for @contact, html: {multipart:true} do |f|  %>

<%= f.label :username %>
<%= f.text_field :username %>

<% end %>

But when i go to localhost:3000/contacts/new

I get the below error.

undefined method contacts_path which is occuring in first line of form.

But when i try to define as below in routes, it worked

get 'contacts/new', to: 'contacts#new', as: 'contact'

Any idea why rails throws such error when i have defined it in the routes file. I am just trying to understand inner workings of rails routes

Upvotes: 0

Views: 132

Answers (3)

Mukesh
Mukesh

Reputation: 931

Make a post type route for contacts (for this it is throwing error)

Or remove this route

 get 'contacts/new', to: 'contacts#new'

And add this simply

resources :contacts

Upvotes: 1

7urkm3n
7urkm3n

Reputation: 6321

Try better use railsy way like resources as @Graham mentioned.

or

get 'contacts', to: 'contacts#index', as: :contacts #genetares: contacts_path
get 'contacts/new', to: 'contacts#new', as: :new_contact #new_contact_path

Upvotes: 2

Graham Slick
Graham Slick

Reputation: 6870

To avoid this kind of errors, remove your route and use:

resources :contacts, only: [:new, :create]

Upvotes: 2

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