[Rails] Re: routing problem with beginner tutorial app

mattn wrote:
> I'm just getting started with Rails 2. Plus, it's been a while since I
> played with Rails at all. So to explore, I whipped out an old Rails
> tutorial (from an O'Reilly book) and started going through it, to
> refresh my memory.

Do not use old Rails tutorials with new versions of Rails.

Do not use old versions of Rails for new projects...

[...]
> But here's the weird part. I then *deleted* the map.resources line
> from routes.db, and my app nevertheless continued working.

If you are using a version of Rails before 2.3, you need to restart the
server for routing changes to take effect.

> I can rake
> routes and sure enough only the default routes are in force.

Right, because rake loads a new instance of the Rails environment, and
so it picks up the changes in the routes file.

> So it
> looks like maybe this a bug in Rails, where it takes some manual
> jiggering to get the default routes operating properly? Anyway I
> figure this must be well known, so maybe someone could just explain it
> to me? No big deal, but I like to understand what's going on, if
> possible - thx - m.

No bug. No manual jiggering. Your routes file just got out of sync
with what the server already had in memory.

Best,
-
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org
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