It appears the uploadFile method is getting called because its redirecting to :index, which doesn't exist now since you deleted it. 

There are many issues here, but try the following:
1) put the code in uploadfile.html.erb in app/views/upload/index.html.erb
2) uncomment the index action, but make it empty

Garrett Lancaster

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rixter February 1, 2011 3:17 PM

So, I commented out the index method in my controller, just leaving the view as before.

Now I get the error:

Unknown action

No action responded to index

so my question now is, why doesn't the method uploadFile get called in the controller from the view with this code:

<% form_tag ({:action => 'uploadFile'}, :multipart => true) do %>
<p><label for="upload_file">Select File</label> :
<%= file_field 'upload', 'datafile' %></p>
<%= submit_tag "Upload" %>
<% end %>

Still a mystery to me...

--rixter

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rixter February 1, 2011 3:07 PM

Thanks for catching my dumb error with the backslashes...(this is running on Linux after all...). As you can tell, I'm crudely cutting-&-pasting code from online examples...

Yes, there is a file app/views/upload/uploadfile.html.erb, which is the view for my Upload class.

I'm not sure why I'm rendering the file like that either -- it was just in an example I was trying to adapt to my purposes -- but I do know if I take it out, the form doesn't work anymore.
All I'm trying to do is have the Submit button feed the selected file to the controller correctly, and then to the model correctly, where the data gets imported into the database.
But I obviously still have major errors in how this is coded....

Any other suggestions appreciated...

Thanks again,
rixter
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