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    copied!<p>I'm a rails beginner and have been several hours now trying to figure out why my "generate new password" link, which was supposed to execute my custom update_password action inside my users controller, and then flash the password back on the screen (later i plan to send this by e-mail or sms, but for now this would do) keeps executing the create method/action... I understand I have two POST methods for the users index screen...but cannot understand (since i even placed it first on the routes file) why create is the one that keeps getting executed. I know it doesn't go to the update method, because i filled it with debugger logging messages, which do not show up anywhere. (and the logging is active since i see the index method logging message)</p> <p>Here is what I'm doing : </p> <p>routes.rb file extract :</p> <pre><code>match 'users?user_id=(:user_id)', to: "users#update_password", via: :post, as: "users_update_password" </code></pre> <p>resources :users</p> <p>rake routes (controller users)</p> <pre><code>users_update_password POST /users?user_id=(:user_id)(.:format) users#update_password users GET /users(.:format) users#index POST /users(.:format) users#create new_user GET /users/new(.:format) users#new edit_user GET /users/:id/edit(.:format) users#edit user GET /users/:id(.:format) users#show PUT /users/:id(.:format) users#update DELETE /users/:id(.:format) users#destroy signup /signup(.:format) users#new </code></pre> <p>users_controller.rb</p> <pre><code> def update_password logger.info "Inside update_password" logger.flush password= generate_password() logger.debug "Password is #{password}" @user = User.find_by_id(params[:user_id]) logger.debug "user is #{@user}" if @user.update_attributes(password:password, password_confirmation:password) logger.info "inside the if" flash[:notice] = "New password for user #{@user.name}: #{password}" logger.debug "Flash is #{flash}" redirect_to users_path else logger.debug "I am on else of update_password" flash[:alert] = "Name: #{@user.name} password: #{password}" render 'index' end </code></pre> <p>end</p> <pre><code>def index logger.info "Inside controller index method" @users = User.paginate(page: params[:page]) </code></pre> <p>end</p> <p>_user.html.erb</p> <pre><code>&lt;% if current_user.admin? &amp;&amp; !current_user?(user) %&gt; | &lt;%= link_to "delete", user, method: :delete, confirm: "Are you sure?" %&gt; | &lt;%= link_to "Generate new password", users_update_password_path(:user_id=&gt;user.id), method: :post, confirm: "Are you sure? This will reset current password" %&gt; &lt;% end %&gt; </code></pre> <p>Thank you for your help</p>
 

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