Rails page has wrong html - html

Question

I have a link to a page in the same folder as this page on my rails site:
<%= link_to 'Special Access', 'followers/special_access' %>
However, when I go to this page it shows a different page on that url.
<p id="notice"><%= notice %></p>
<div id="sent">
<p>Your request has been sent</p>
<%= link_to 'Home', followers_path %>
</div>
I tried deleting the page that the html is from, but first of all I need that page and it also gives me an error.
I edited the controller to contain:
def special_access
format.html { redirect_to followers/special_access }
format.json { render :json => #post }
end
instead of
def show
but that still didn't solve the problem.
How do I get the right html to show up on the right page?

Answer 1

If you do not define a route for special_access, rails will just assume the the special_acces part in the path is the :id of the route for the show page (as the urls look like followers/:id).
So first off, in your routes.rb, find the resources :followers and replace with the following:
resources :followers do
collection do
get :special_access
end
end
And now you should best always use the rails path helpers, so your link would become
<% link_to 'Special Access', special_access_followers_path %>
Here I was assuming the special access is on the collection of the followers, if it should be on a specific follower (which seems more logical to me, but I have no idea of course), you should write
resources :followers do
member do
get :special_access
end
end
And your link would become
<% link_to 'Special Access', special_access_followers_path(#follower) %>
I am not quite sure what you want to do in your controller action, I hope you just want to render an html page (because redirecting to the same url seems silly, and your syntax is wrong there too).
Hope this helps.