Routing Error :: No route matches [GET] "/static_pages/about"

Question

I am getting this error while going through the tutorial by Michael Hartl. Section 5.3.2 (Rails routes).

Content of my routes.rb file is

SampleApp::Application.routes.draw do
   root  'static_pages#home'
  match '/help',    to: 'static_pages#help',    via: 'get'
  match '/about',   to: 'static_pages#about',   via: 'get'
  match '/contact', to: 'static_pages#contact', via: 'get'
end

My rspec at static_pages is successful ..I have followed every instructions but still getting this error while trying to access any of the pages at `

http://localhost:3000/static_pages/home
http://localhost:3000/static_pages/about
http://localhost:3000/static_pages/contact

This is the error i am getting on these pages

Action Controller:Exception caught

Routing Error
No route matches [GET] "/static_pages/about"

Rails.root: /home/abhinay/rails_projects/sample_app

Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace
Routes

Routes match in priority from top to bottom



  Helper     HTTP Verb  Path             Controller#Action
    Path / Url          
    root_path     GET       /                    static_pages#home
    help_path     GET      /help(.:format)   static_pages#help
    about_path    GET      /about(.:format)  static_pages#about
    contact_path  GET      /contact(.:format)    static_pages#contact

Answer 1

Look you do not have any routes "/static_pages/about"

so you got error

 Routing Error
 No route matches [GET] "/static_pages/about"

As per your routes for about page /about should be the url

 http://localhost:300/about   
 http://localhost:300/contact 
 http://localhost:300/help

It will acutally call your static_pages controller and about action of that controller

and from url helper of rails routes you get

For About:

about_path or about_url should be used

For contact

contact_path or contact_url

For help

help_path or help_url