quick rails named routes question

Question

In my view I specify a named route like this:

show.html.erb ->

seo_path(:id => "45")

Now in my routes I define like so:

routes.rb ->

map.seo "/pages/:id/:permalink", :controller => "pages", :action => "show"

Below is the error message I am getting. Apparently the diff is the id, although I don't know why.

Update:

I am getting this as my error:

seo_url failed to generate from {:controller=>"pages", :id=>"45", :action=>"show"}, expected: {:controller=>"pages", :action=>"show"}, diff: {:id=>"45"}

Answer 1

I don't fully understand your question.

It looks like id is already specified in your named route, and in your view. It looks like you need to also specify permalink in your view. Are you getting an error?

Answer 2

Why not using the to_param method?

class YourModel << AR::Base

 def to_param
    "#{id}-#{title.parameterize}"
 end

Thus getting routes like

/pages/1-here-is-my-converted-article-title-to-permalink

Besides that, it would seems Rails isn't recognizing your route. Have you restarted your web server? Try sending only a :permalink attribute to see how it goes.