ruby - Rails controller using wrong method -

i'm working on rails project giving me problems. i've got controller characters_controller.rb has 2 methods.

class characterscontroller < applicationcontroller    before_action :authenticate_player!    def view     @character = character.find(params[:id])     unless @character.player_id == current_player.id       redirect_to :root     end   end    def new   end  end 

i've got routes set each of those.

get 'characters/:id', to: 'characters#view' 'characters/new', to: 'characters#new' 

the first route works fine. can go /characters/1 , i'm shown appropriate view , requested information. if visit /characters/new i'm shown error references characters#view.

raise recordnotfound, "couldn't find #{name} '#{primary_key}'=#{id}" 

and

app/controllers/characters_controller.rb:6:in `view' 

so /characters/new trying character database id of "new" doesn't work well. idea may doing wrong?

order matters in routes.rb, router find first route matches.

in case, never go characters#new, because line above match.

a simple solution swap 2 lines.

a better solution might use resource routing documented in rails routing guide.