Why are my HAML named routes empty?

Question

I'm trying to create some pages in HAML, which are partly working. The HTML that it produces is correct, apart from one thing. Where I have:

%ul#menu 
  %li 
    = link_to 'Home', root_url

I am expecting to get back:

<a href="/">Home</a>

Instead, it is producing:

<a href>Home</a>

Upon looking into it further, it seems that all of my named routes are simply returning a blank string and not the route they are meant to. This is happening on all of them not just root.

If I try changing it to a made-up name, something like 'test_path' then, as I expect, I get an error saying the method doesn't exist, so it's not a case of not being able to find it, it's simply not returning anything.

In the Rails console I am able to get the correct route so I know it's working, and rake routes gives me:

about        /about(.:format)                   welcome#about
contact      /contact(.:format)                 welcome#contact
faq          /faq(.:format)                     welcome#faq
plans        /plans(.:format)                   welcome#plans
root         /                                  welcome#index

Can anyone help as this is a pretty major issue and makes it pretty hard to keep developing if I can't generate links to anything

That's not normal... And nothing you've posted would tell us why. Are you using any wierd gems or plugins that might interfere with routing? — Alex Wayne, Apr 04 '13 at 23:47
maybe if you can put your project on github or any other services someone can have a look at it — pjam, Apr 04 '13 at 23:47
Actually... What happens if you use `root_path` instead of `root_url`? — Alex Wayne, Apr 04 '13 at 23:49
Exactly the same thing. _path or _url returns nothing. I can't think of any gems that would break it. It was originally working when I was using ERB but now It's not working with ERB again :( I've commented out the newest gems I've added before it stopped working and it's still not working. I can't really make a public repo as it's for another company so is private :( — PaReeOhNos, Apr 04 '13 at 23:52

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 05 '13 at 03:27

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OK, I figured out what it was.

The application I'm working on uses BaseCamp-style subdomains for an organisation.

Following Railscast #221 Subdomains in Rails 3 on implementing subdomains, I had created the url_for method as shown, however simply missed the super keyword so it was never generating the URL.

edited Apr 05 '13 at 03:27

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answered Apr 05 '13 at 00:13

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When Stack Overflow allows it, award yourself the answer. – the Tin Man Apr 05 '13 at 03:28
Will do. So annoying you have to wait 2 days! :( – PaReeOhNos Apr 05 '13 at 05:26

Why are my HAML named routes empty?

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