"generate scaffold" generated plural name in routes.rb -- why?

Rails
1

Hi,

I ran:
http://localhost:3000/
I got:
Routing Error
No route matches “/” with {:method=>:get}

I had just run:
ruby script/generate scaffold vendor nickname:string
qbname:string
rename public\index.html to --index.html

I listed Config\routes.rb:
ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
map.resources :vendors

I thought the plural “vendors” was odd, so I changed it to singular:
app ran fine.

Why did the plural version get generated? I’m running Rails 2.3.5 on
WinXP-Pro/SP3

Thanks in Advance
Richard

2

When mapping resources you use the pluralized version, so you need to
switch
it back to vendors. You also need to map the root, other wise
localhost:3000/ will not have a route defined. See this commented line
in
routes.rb

You can have the root of your site routed with map.root – just

remember
to delete public/index.html.

map.root :controller => “welcome”

-Jer

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:30 AM, RichardOnRails <

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Thanks for your response Jeremy,

Here’s what I know now. With http://localhost:3000/ and the 2nd line
of routes.db successively:
map.root :controller => “vendors” # undefined method
`vendor_path’
map.root :controller => “users” # Works
map.resources :users # No route matches “/” with
{:method=>:get}
map.resources :vendors # No route matches “/” with
{:method=>:get}

Also, the following both work, seemingly regardless of what routes are
available
http://localhost:3000/users
http://localhost:3000/vendors

My next effort is to add a Home page with a side-bar of links to other
pages and kill all the root/resource entries except Home itself as the
default.

Yet I wonder why controller => “vendors” fails despite the fact that
controller => “users” work, when I thing I created them in the same
manner. Do you have any idea? I expect there’s not enough info to
let anyone to make a useful guess, so I’ll just keep working to
eliminate the need for routes to vendors and users,

Again, thanks for your insights,
Richard