Im still new to Rails and have a hard time understanding how the path system works in Rails.
In my routes.rb i create an alias for signup:
match 'signup' => 'user#new' resource :user, :controller => 'user'
The action is there and going to /signup shows the correct action. So far so good.
Now, when i submit my signup form it runs the create action with POST as usual. And here is where im stuck.
If the signup fails, i would like to present the user with the signup form again. One option would be to do a render "new", but that takes the user to /user instead of /signup.
UserController
class UserController < ApplicationController def new @user = User.new end def create @user = User.new(params[:user]) if @user.save redirect_to root_url else render "new" end end end
Any help appreciated!
UPDATE - SOLUTION FOUND
Added 2 match routings for /signup, using the :via option
match 'signup' => 'user#new', :as => :signup, :via => 'get' match 'signup' => 'user#create', :as => :signup, :via => 'post'
This way the application knows that when posting to /signup it should run the create action, and when http method is get, it uses the new action.
Controller markup is the same as posted above.