How do I use the Rails helper link_to RESTfully in this situation?

I basically want to use link_to to link to the index method of a controller. I tried:

<%= link_to 'Recipes', Recipe %>

but that outputs:

<a href="/recipes/Recipe">Recipes</a>

Which is clearly not right, if it left off that last bit it would do exactly what I want it to. I thought that with RESTful stuff I somehow would start to leave out the action or something like that. What am I misunderstanding?

From stackoverflow Frew

• With the restful routes, the majority of the time you're expected to call a helper method to generate the route.

  eg:

  link_to 'Recipes', recipes_path
  

  There is an optimization where you can just pass in a recipe object, and it will call the helper method for you behind the scenes: eg:

  link_to 'Recipe X', @recipe
  

  is the same as

  link_to 'Recipe X', recipe_path(@recipe)
  

  However, it's just a special case.

  What you are doing is passing The recipe class itself, not a valid recipe object. As rails doesn't know to handle this, as a fallback it just calls .to_s on whatever you've given it, and then gives that to recipe_path, which is why you see the strange URL.

  Tip: Use the _path helper methods rather than the _url methods.

  _url gives you a full URL such as http://stackoverflow.com/recipes/5 whereas _path just gives you /recipes/5.
  The problem with the full URL is that a lot of the time in production your rails app is running as a mongrel sitting behind a load balancer, so it thinks it's host name is actually 1.2.3.4 (or whatever the internal LAN IP is) rather than the real URL, and so will serve broken links.

  Ben Scofield : Your first example should use recipes_path - you want the index action.

  Frew : Excellent! Thanks!
  From Orion Edwards