Path helpers generate paths with dots instead of slashes

Question

In my routes.rb I have the following:

resources :message_threads

When I call:

message_threads_path(1)

I g

Answer 1

Sometimes this also is when you don't provide an :as parameter in your route:

delete "delete/:id" => "home#delete"

Changed to:

delete "delete/:id" => "home#delete", as: :delete

(ignore the odd example, just happened to be something we just ran into for an internal app we're building)