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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Viewing Todo Items: Part 1

Posted by McFadden Gavender
McFadden Gavender
4,893 Points

Error: No route matches.... missing required keys: [:id]

Here is the error I'm receiving.

     No route matches {:action=>"show", :controller=>"reminder_detail", :med_reminder_id=>#<MedReminder id: 1, medication: "My Medication Name", created_at: "2014-11-25 05:57:58", updated_at: "2014-11-25 05:57:58">, :id=>nil, :format=>nil} missing required keys: [:id]

I can fix this error by changing the code from:

<%= link_to "Add Reminders", med_reminder_reminder_detail_path(med_reminder) %>

<%= link_to "Add Reminders", med_reminder_reminder_detail_path(med_reminder, :id) %>

However, this leads to a different error as it then routes to /med_reminders/3/reminder_detail/id - the 'id' being what breaks the link.

Any ideas?

3 Answers

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points
Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

In your routes.rb file, what is the route that you are expecting here?

McFadden Gavender
McFadden Gavender
4,893 Points
McFadden Gavender
McFadden Gavender
4,893 Points

Here is how it is setup in my routes.rb - sorry for the slow response.

resources :med_reminders do
    resources :reminder_detail
end
Twiz T
Twiz T
12,588 Points
Twiz T
Twiz T
12,588 Points

It is a nested route so it looks like you need to pass in the :reminder_id resource as well to the path helper in the view.