I believe I have copied the code correctly from the book on this one, but when I try to sort items by dragging and dropping, the server pipes up with an ActionController::UnknownAction, claiming that nothing would respond to sort. :(

Is this caused by using Rails 2.3.2?

in index.html.erb:

<%= sortable_element ‘todo-list’, :url => { :action => “sort”, :id => @today }, :complete => visual_effect(:highlight, ‘todo-list’) %>

in today_controller.rb:

def sort
  @today.todos.each do |todo|
    todo.position = params['todo_list'.index(todo.id.to_s) +1]
    todo.save
  end
  render :nothing => true
end

It appears you may have a typo. I believe the line you have as

todo.position = params['todo_list'.index(todo.id.to_s) + 1]

todo.position = params['todo_list'.index(todo.id.to_s)] + 1

Were you able to get this working? I’m not seeing the difference in the two lines of code that you posted.

Sorry. It was a copy and paste typo in my response to the original post. I have since edited my post.