Custom view/action/controller not working in Sails JS

Question

I must be doing something wrong, but I can't see... Basically if I create a controller/model through sails generate controller products and in the file /controllers/ProductsController I add some variables to the index action such as:

index: function(req, res) {

    return res.view({
        myOne: 'World?',
        myvar: 'hello???',
        title: 'Yeap'
    })

},

and when I check localhost:1337/products surely enough the variables are printed within the template. Note that I haven't added a custom view and my template file is located at views/products/index.jade (I'm using Jade rather than EJS). However if I create a custom view in /config/routes such as:

'/custom': {

    view: 'custom',
    controller: 'ProductsController',
    action: 'customAction'

}

and in my ProductsController I have a very similar action as previously described:

customAction: function(req, res) {

    return res.view({
        myOne: 'Hello?',
        myvar: 'World???',
        title: 'Yeap'
    })

},

The variables are not printed in my template. The template is being called alright so is the Controller and Action (so it seems). Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

You have a choice between naming the view the same name as your action customAction.jade if you want to access it via:

index: function(req, res) {

  return res.view({
    myOne: 'World?',
    myvar: 'hello???',
    title: 'Yeap'
  })

},

or you can access the same view/template (e.g. index.jade) by using this syntax:

customAction: function(req, res) {

  return res.view('products/index', {
    myOne: 'World?',
    myvar: 'hello???',
    title: 'Yeap'
  })

},

I have a working repo using ejs here.