I'm trying to generate a link for a user to click to confirm their account. I'm wanting this:
/users/:id/confirm/:code
I've got this in my routes file:
resources :users do
member do
get 'confirm/:confirmation_code', :action => 'confirm'
end
end
I've tried:
user_confirm_path(@user, @confirmation_code)
confirm_user_path(@confirmation_code, @user)
and many others but can't seem to get the right one. I guess I could always generate the link url myself but that doesn't seem the rails way.
This is what my rake routes outputs:
rake routes
Prefix Verb URI Pattern Controller#Action
GET /users/:id/confirm/:confirmation_code(.:format) users#confirm
but omits the thing I'm actually looking for
I'm not gonna give the solution right away, but I will give you the keys to solve the problem yourself: ("Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.")
You can run the following command to list all the available routes in your app and the corresponding helpers:
rake routes
In my app, there is so many routes I can't see them all at once. So I add a | grep something
to only select the part that I need. In your case, it would be something like:
rake routes | grep confirm
And you will probably end up reading an output like:
confirm_user_path GET /users/:id/confirm/:confirmation_code
Googling "rails 4.0.2 url helper", first link is a Github issue: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/12751
I had another similar question which was answered over here: Named routes inserting a . instead of a /
Using that same answer for this problem solved it.