I am working on a project where there are users and users have profiles. I am using the devise gem for the user authentication purposes.I have changed a path for an action in a controller which is resulting in unexplained behavior.
Test::Application.routes.draw do
match '/:username' => 'profile#show' , :as => :username
get "profile/update"
get "static_pages/index"
devise_for :users
The server logs show the following.
Started POST "/users" for 127.0.0.1 at 2013-02-22 03:07:48 +0530
Processing by ProfileController#show as HTML
Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"Tr90BvI6sztk7gxlPm6KF3td3xIe91SpCZDGsIniv60=", "user"=>{"username"=>"example", "email"=>"example@email.com", "password"=>"[FILTERED]", "password_confirmation"=>"[FILTERED]"}, "commit"=>"Sign up", "username"=>"users"}
Rendered profile/show.html.erb within layouts/application (0.1ms)
Completed 200 OK in 12ms (Views: 11.5ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms)
The data is not being inserted into the database and the username parameter is getting changed, and when i change the route to the default route i.e
match '/:username' => 'profile#show' , :as => :username
changed to
get "profile/show"
everything is back to normal. the data is being inserted and everything works fine.I dont understand why and action from profile controller is being called when it is a user registration.rake routes
gives the following output
username /:username(.:format) profile#show
profile_update GET /profile/update(.:format) profile#update
static_pages_index GET /static_pages/index(.:format) static_pages#index
new_user_session GET /users/sign_in(.:format) devise/sessions#new
user_session POST /users/sign_in(.:format) devise/sessions#create
destroy_user_session DELETE /users/sign_out(.:format) devise/sessions#destroy
user_password POST /users/password(.:format) devise/passwords#create
new_user_password GET /users/password/new(.:format) devise/passwords#new
edit_user_password GET /users/password/edit(.:format) devise/passwords#edit
PUT /users/password(.:format) devise/passwords#update
cancel_user_registration GET /users/cancel(.:format) devise/registrations#cancel
user_registration POST /users(.:format) devise/registrations#create
new_user_registration GET /users/sign_up(.:format) devise/registrations#new
edit_user_registration GET /users/edit(.:format) devise/registrations#edit
PUT /users(.:format) devise/registrations#update
DELETE /users(.:format) devise/registrations#destroy
root / static_pages#inde
Thanks in advance.