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Troubleshooting a Rails Application

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Missing Components - Routes

1:27 with Jay McGavren

We just updated our database, and we're still trying to load the list of Owners in our browser. But now we have another problem. It's reporting a routing error: "No route matches [GET] '/owners'".

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    Okay, we just updated our database and we're still trying to load the list of 0:01
    owners in our browser but now we have another problem. 0:04
    It's reporting a routing error, no route matches [GET] slash owners. 0:07
    The GET is an HTTP GET request. 0:12
    It's what your browser sends when it wants to get a resource like the list of owners. 0:15
    You can check out the teacher's notes for more on the HTTP protocol and 0:19
    /owners is the path at the end of our URL. 0:24
    Rails needs a way to take that get request and path and 0:28
    route it to the correct controller action. 0:30
    To do that, you go into the config > routes.rb file. 0:34
    So we'll go in there, and add a route for a get request, 0:39
    with a path of /owners and 0:44
    we'll have it go to the OwnersController's index actions. 0:48
    So we'll send to owners#index action. 0:53
    Save it. 1:01
    If our controller had all the usual CRUD actions, like index, 1:03
    show, new, edit, etc., we could just use the shortcut resources owners. 1:06
    But for right now, we're just setting up the index section. 1:12
    Now that we've got a route in place, if we reload the page again, 1:15
    we see that our no route matches error goes away. 1:20
    Gets replaced by a different one, but at least we're another step closer. 1:23

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