I am building a fairly simple recipe app to learn RoR, and I am attempting to allow a user to save a recipe by clicking a link rather than through a form, so I am connecting the user_recipe controllers 'create' function through a link_to.
Unfortunately, for some reason the link_to is calling the index function rather than the create.
I've written the link_to as
<%= "save this recipe", :action => 'create', :recipe_id => @recipe %>
this link is on the user_recipes/index.html.erb and is calling the 'create' function of the same controller. It doesn't seem to make a difference if I include the :controller or not.
The controllers look like this
def index @recipe = params[:recipe_id] @user_recipes = UserRecipes.all # change to find when more than one user in db respond_to do |format| format.html #index.html.erb format.xml { render :xml => @recipes } end end def create @user_recipe = UserRecipe.new @user_recipe.recipe_id = params[:recipe_id] @user_recipe.user_id = current_user respond_to do |format| if @menu_recipe.save format.html { redirect_to(r, :notice => 'Menu was successfully created.') } format.xml { render :xml => @menu, :status => :created, :location => @menu } else format.html { render :action => "new" } format.xml { render :xml => @menu.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity } end end