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Place custom Rails routes first

Learn how to prioritize custom Rails routes for error-free routing and improved functionality in your web applications. Optimize your code now!

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This is another one that should have been obvious. But, I was getting it wrong. Maybe it had something to do with upgrading to Rails 1.2.6.

Anyway, I was getting an error with a custom action. I was sending a form to projects/do_something. But, I kept getting the error of “Can’t find project with ID=do_something”.

This was happening because Rails thought it was supposed to be looking in the route for the show action. But, checking the routes file, I could see that I had defined my custom route. What, what was up?

It turns out, the custom route has to come before the standard “map.resources :projects” line.

Once I fixed that, all is well again. (I still think this acted differently in 1.2.3. Hmm).

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