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Pete Schlette
Pete Schlette

Reputation: 2038

How to use collection resources and link_to with a parameter?

Did some searching and found lots of similar questions, but nothing quite answering what I'm looking for. Very new to Rails and have a resource:

resources :articles do
  collection do
    get 'search/:query' => "articles#search"
  end
end

I read through the Rails API on link_to and constructed this as my best guess on how to create a link to the route "search/:query" --

<%= link_to "Search for recipes", search_articles_path(:query => "waffles") %>

but that creates a link to /articles/search?query=waffles, not to /articles/search/waffles as I'd hoped. Is there a simple way to modify this so it will work this way? I'm also considering the possibility that this is difficult because it's not very "Railsy" and I should be looking into other ways to map this.

Edit: I'm fairly sure I could get this working by using match instead of resources, but suspect that using resources would be more idiomatic and easier to manage.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1371

Answers (2)

Jack Chu
Jack Chu

Reputation: 6821

Similar to Hitesh's answer:

resources :articles do
  get 'search/:query' => "articles#search", :on => collection, :as => :search
end

But to construct the link_to helper do this:

<%= link_to "Search for recipes", search_articles_path('waffles') %>

Tried this on a demo app and it worked fine. The link looked like:

http://localhost:3000/articles/search/waffles

Upvotes: 2

Hitesh
Hitesh

Reputation: 825

resources :articles do
  collection do
    get 'search/:query' => "articles#search",:as=>search_articles_path
  end
end

use above if it is not work then use below

<%= link_to "Search for recipes", "/search/waffles") %>

Upvotes: 1

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