Clarification on how to use “thumbs_up” voting gem with Rails 3

Question

I am attempting to implement the thumbs_up voting gem on a Rails 3 app, however the instructions are unclear on the actual implementation. After requiring the gem [g

Answer 1

This is just a continuation of Brady's answer.

Brady had the following code in his view

<%= link_to('vote for this post!', vote_up_post_path(@post), :method => :post) %>

what he means is.. since link_to by default uses :method => 'get' & he wanted to update the record using post & not get so he is using :method => 'post'

U can use <%= button_to('vote for this post!', vote_up_post_path(@post) %>, because button by default uses :method => :post

so the routes should be

resources :posts do
  member do
    post :vote_up
  end
end

here in post :vote_up inside the member, its the method => :post & not the post controller

but if you are determined to use link_to without :method => :post something like this

<%= link_to('vote for this post!', vote_up_post_path(@post)) %>

then your routing should be

resources :posts do
   member do
      get :vote_up
   end
end

Hope this helps!