Ruby on Rails: Custom actions

Question

I\'m new to rails, so I\'ll just explain my situation to you:

I\'ve got a User Model and a UsersController. Users log in with their email address and a password. Special

Answer 1

You probably have something like this in your routes file. (If not, please post that.)

resources :users 

If you want to add a custom action that acts on a single User, you can add that as a :member like this.

resources :users do
  member do
    get :activate
  end
end

Note that using a get for something that modifies data is a bit wrong, but you're talking about hitting this from a link in an email.

As you play with routes don't forget that rake routes will show you all of the routes that you currently have available to you.