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Ruby

Posted by Mitch Malone
Mitch Malone
3,577 Points

Linking to profile

In the Building a Profile Page stage, we print all the statuses from each user. But there's no way to get to these profiles besides putting the name in the URL.

I've tried to do this but I keep getting this error: 

No route matches {:controller=>"profiles", :action=>"show"}

Here is my routes: 

get '/:id', to: 'profiles#show', as: :profile

Here is my Profiles Controller (same as in the tutorial):

class ProfilesController < ApplicationController
   def show
    @user = User.find_by_profile_name(params[:id])
        if @user
        @statuses = @user.statuses.all
        render action: :show
        else
    render file: 'public/404', status: 404, formats: [:html]
end

end end

And here's my applications layout view: 

<li><%= link_to current_user.full_name, profile_path %></li>

The profile pages render but nothing else does.

What am I doing wrong?

2 Answers

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Mitch Malone

Try changing this:

<li><%= link_to current_user.full_name, profile_path %></li>

To this:

<li><%= link_to current_user.full_name, profile_path(current_user.profile_name) %></li>

And let me know if that works.

Mitch Malone
Mitch Malone
3,577 Points
Mitch Malone
Mitch Malone
3,577 Points

Got it. Thanks Jason Seifer !