For a simple quiz app I'm trying to connect a couple of static pages, but since I'm new to Ruby on Rails I'm having trouble with how to correctly define my routes.
I have a static page pages/user_quiz_start with this link that is supposed to send the user to pages/user_quiz_question.html and initialize the current_question_index variable:
#views/pages/user_quiz_start.html.rb:
<%= link_to 'Start Quiz!', :controller => :pages, :action => :start_quiz %>
But I get "ActionController::UrlGenerationError in Pages#show"
-> No route matches {:action=>"start_quiz", :controller=>"pages", :page=>"user_quiz_start"}
Here is my controller and my routes:
#pages_controller.rb:
def show
if valid_page?
render template: "pages/#{params[:page]}"
else
render file: "public/404.html", status: :not_found
end
end
def start_quiz
if @quiz_session.start!
redirect_to user_quiz_question_path, notice: 'Quiz has been started'
else
redirect_to :back, error: 'Quiz cannot be started'
end
end
#in the model quiz_session.rb:
def start!
self.current_question_index = 0
end
#routes.rb:
Rails.application.routes.draw do
...
get 'home/index'
get '/user_quiz_start', :to => redirect('pages/user_quiz_start.html')
get '/user_quiz_question' => redirect('pages/user_quiz_question.html')
# Setup static pages
get "/pages/:page" => "pages#show"
devise_scope :user do
root to: redirect('/pages/user_home')
match '/sessions/user', to: 'devise/sessions#create', via: :post
end
root 'pages#home'
end
I know my routes are inconsistent and I have been looking at various guides concerning routes in rails, but I just don't get it yet :/ Any help would be appreciated.
"ActionController::UrlGenerationError in Pages#show" -> No route matches {:action=>"start_quiz", :controller=>"pages", :page=>"user_quiz_start"}
Problem:
You don't have a route for start_quiz
action of pages_controller
in your config/routes.rb
file
Solution:
Add this entry in routes.rb
get "/pages/start_quiz" => "pages#start_quiz"
And now the route will take you to the start_quiz
action in pages_controller