how do I link pages on rails?

Question

I have three resources for my demo_app that I made. I made a home page but I wanted to put links of my home page to link to my three resources. I put out the code

<%= link_to 'users', @user %> | 
<%= link_to 'microposts', @micropost %> |
<%= link_to 'task', @task %> |

on my home page and the links show up on the page but they don't work

routes.rb file

DemoApp::Application.routes.draw do
      get "static_pages/home"

      resources :tasks

      resources :microposts

      resources :users

      root :to => 'static_pages#home'
    end

what I want to do is link to the index page of each of these like the one here

<h1>Listing tasks</h1>

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Name</th>
      <th>Status</th>
      <th></th>
      <th></th>
      <th></th>
    </tr>
  </thead>

  <tbody>
    <% @tasks.each do |task| %>
      <tr>
        <td><%= task.name %></td>
        <td><%= task.status %></td>
        <td><%= link_to 'Show', task %></td>
        <td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_task_path(task) %></td>
        <td><%= link_to 'Destroy', task, method: :delete, data: { confirm: 'Are you sure?' } %></td>
      </tr>
    <% end %>
  </tbody>
</table>

<br>

<%= link_to 'New Task', new_task_path %>

and also have a link back to the home page. sorry is this a funky question?

Solution 1

Please look into http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html - it is a great reference! Depending on what the link target is supposed to be you are probably looking for:

<%= link_to 'User (view)', user_path(@user) %>
<%= link_to 'User (edit)', edit_user_path(@user) %>
<%= link_to 'User (index)', users_path %>

Best, Ben.

Solution 2

In your view you want to use an appropriate path helper for each. To get the index pages:

<%= link_to 'users', users_path %>
<%= link_to 'microposts', microposts_path %>