Ruby on Rails nested resource routing error - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

I have a user, comment, and route model as shown:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :routes, :dependent => :destroy
has_many :comments, :dependent => :destroy
end
class Route < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
end
class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
end
I have the routes.rb file nesting comments and routes within user as shown:
MyApp::Application.routes.draw do
resources :users do
resources :comments
resources :routes
end
When I run 'rake routes', the route to the Routes_controller index appears as so:
user_routes GET /users/:user_id/routes(.:format) {:action =>"index", :controller=>"routes"}
Yet for some reason when a user is signing in, I get a routing error saying that the routes controller cannot be found. This happens when the system is posting a new session in the session controller. I know that it attempts to sign in the user, but fails on the redirect. Any suggestions?
class SessionsController < ApplicationController
...
def create
user = User.authenticate(params[:session][:email],
params[:session][:password])
if user.nil?
flash.now[:error] = "Invalid email/password combination."
#title = "Sign in"
render 'new'
else
sign_in user
redirect_to user_routes_path
end
end
...
end
For some reason, the stack trace wasn't displayed when I redirect to user_routes_path, so I have it direct to root_path and the same thing happens. Here is the trace for that:
app/views/layouts/_header.html.erb:3:in
`_app_views_layouts__header_html_erb___917786942_46449696_315190'
app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:11:in
`_app_views_layouts_application_html_erb__423035099_46500948_0'

Answer 1

I will give it a try, after reading Fernandez: The rails 3 way about redirect_to.
When you look at the output from rake routes, you have the output:
user_routes GET /users/:user_id/routes(.:format) {:action =>"index", :controller=>"routes"}
The methods you may use to that route are:
user_routes_url: Full URL (with protocol and everything)
user_routes_path: Relative URL to the host
But your user_routes tells you another thing: the URL has to contain a user_id, and this user_id has to come from somewhere. So to call the different url and path methods, you have to look at the arguments:
users_path: no argument, shows all users
user_path(#user): one argument, because the information about the user is needed. Could be the user, or the user_id
`user_routes_path(#user): needs the user, so that all routes (index view) for one user could be shown.
So include in you source code in the controller:
...
else
sign_in user
redirect_to user_routes_path(user)
end
...
I don't understand the error message you have appended, but I think you should first correct the path call.