# Explaining the context

puts "I am learning Rails, building a simple forum application."
puts "I am pretty satisfied to where I got so far but routes... "
puts "...still figuring them out."
puts "Been 2 days trying all sorts of things."
puts "This is where I am now, and something is not working as expected."
puts "Any help/pointers would be appreciated! :)"

# The Problem

puts "I want my forum's create path to be '/helpcenter' and not '/helpcenter/cat'."
puts "When I access the form to create a new forum and I hit submit, "
puts "the form post to '/helpcenter' correctly (firebuged)"
puts "but I get the index, not the create!"
puts "I even put debugger in my create action but it is not being called."

# config/routes.rb

scope "/helpcenter" do
  resources :cat, :controller => "forums", :as => :forums do
    resources :topics , :controller => "forum_topics", :as => :topics
    resources :posts, :controller => "forum_posts", :as => :posts
  end
end

match "/helpcenter" => "forums#index", :as => :forums
match "/helpcenter" => "forums#create", :via => :post, :as => :create_forum

I hope this problem is in the way I created the route. I tried many different things.

# _form.html.erb

<%= form_for(@forum) do |f| %>
....
<% end %>

I am using standard form_for helper.

# Rake Routes for Forums

$ CONTROLLER=forums rake routes
delete_forum GET    /helpcenter/cat/:id/delete(.:format) forums#delete
      forums GET    /helpcenter/cat(.:format)            forums#index
             POST   /helpcenter/cat(.:format)            forums#create
   new_forum GET    /helpcenter/cat/new(.:format)        forums#new
  edit_forum