How to get path in rails routes

I've seen calls to functions like

edit_person_path(person)
results_poll_path(poll)

But I can't replicate that to a path I've added

routes.rb

match 'proposals/:id/forkIt', :to => 'proposals#forkIt

And have forkIt_prop开发者_Python百科osal_path(proposal)

So, i wanted to know, how do I achieve that.

P.S.: I'm noob to Ruby, sorry.

You haven't set the route name. This should do the trick:

match 'proposals/:id/forkIt', :to => 'proposals#forkIt', :as => 'forkIt_proposal'

Or slightly more succinct:

match 'proposals/:id/forkIt' => 'proposals#forkIt', :as => 'forkIt_proposal'

you should have a look to http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#adding-more-restful-actions (section 2.9 "adding more restful actions".)

not sure of what i say (im a noob too) but i think that path helpers are only created when you declare restful routes with resources() (in your case, add an action on member)

Edit: actually, the guide do state that path helpers are created doing this.