Configuring non-restful routes

Question

I can't figure out how to do this in rails 3.0. I have a controller, products, and an action, search, and in routes.rb I've tried

resources :products, :collection => {:search => :post }

and

match 'products/search' => 'products#search', :via => [:get, :post]

and many other settings, but whenever I access products/search I still get an error complaining that the Product with id, search, can't be found for the action show. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You're close.

resources :products do
  collection do 
    match 'search', :via => [:get, :post]
  end
end

Alternatively, you could also do:

resources :products do
  match 'search', :on => :collection, :via => [:get, :post]
end

See Rails Routing from the Outside In of the Edge Guides for more information, more specifically:

• 2.9.2 Adding Collection Routes
• 3.7 HTTP Verb Constraints