Routing Error No route matches [GET] “/static_pages/home”, tutorial

Question

When I run server browser show me something like this:

Routing Error

No route matches [GET] \"/static_pages/home\"

Try running rake routes for more informa         


        

Answer 1

I just got the same error as szatan when I followed the Ruby on Rails tutorial. The error is because, previously, we test URL was http://localhost:3000/static_pages/help since the action is in static_pages. But, after changing routes.rb from

get 'static_pages/help' to
match '/help',    to: 'static_pages#help

The URL should changed to http://localhost:3000/help since we tell Rails server to route the path /help to static_pages#help. We shouldn't expect the user to know the path /static_pages/help.