# Discourse erroneously requesting plural of route?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-erroneously-requesting-plural-of-route/97962
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [24.Сентябрь.2018 19:42:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-erroneously-requesting-plural-of-route/97962 "2018-09-24T19:42:06Z")
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### Author:  [@Kampfkarren](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kampfkarren)
#### Post date: [24.Сентябрь.2018 19:42:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-erroneously-requesting-plural-of-route/97962/1 "2018-09-24T19:42:06Z")
In my plugin routes, I had the following (not these exact names, but hopefully the point is clear)
```plaintext
get "/u/:username/thing" => "user_thing#index", constraints: { username: RouteFormat.username }
get "/u/:username/thing/setup" => "user_thing#setup_index", constraints: { username: RouteFormat.username }
post "/u/:username/thing/setup" => "user_thing#setup", constraints: { username: RouteFormat.username }
```
My route map was:
```plaintext
export default function() {
this.route(
'user',
{ path: '/u/:username', resetNamespace: true},
function() {
this.route('thing', function() {
this.route('setup')
})
}
)
}
```
This has worked so far. Recently, I wanted to add the new routes (note: they’re aligned to root):
```plaintext
resource :thing_foobar, path: "thing/foobar/:foobar_id"
```
(Writing these fake names is becoming difficult 😕)
Now my route map is:
```plaintext
export default function() {
this.route(
'user',
{ path: '/u/:username', resetNamespace: true},
function() {
this.route('thing', function() {
this.route('setup')
})
}
)
this.route(
'thing',
function() {
this.route('redirect', { path: '/foobar/:foobar_id' })
}
)
}
```
Going to mysite.tld/thing/foobar/1, I get redirected to /404
I check my network and I have the following 404:
[http://mysite.tld/foobars/1?\_=1537817415772](http://mysite.tld/foobars/1?_=1537817415772)
What? Why is it requesting a plural form of my route instead of the actual route? Is it because it’s a relative path or something? I don’t understand.
---
### Author:  [@Kampfkarren](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kampfkarren)
#### Post date: [24.Сентябрь.2018 21:36:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-erroneously-requesting-plural-of-route/97962/2 "2018-09-24T21:36:16Z")
I’m not sure if this is exactly what caused it, but I was missing a `model() {` declaration in my route that was giving the plural. I don’t know why these are correlated, if they are.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [24.Сентябрь.2018 21:51:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-erroneously-requesting-plural-of-route/97962/3 "2018-09-24T21:51:42Z")
Glad to hear you got it working. I was interested to see what was causing this, so did a little digging:
> [@Kampfkarren](#):
>
> I don’t know why these are correlated, if they are.
If you don’t define `model()` explicitly, the built-in Ember implementation is used:
>
This ‘guesses’ the name of the model for the route, and then looks it up using the application’s ‘store’:
>
The store’s default behaviour is to construct the URL automatically. It “pluralizes” the name of the model, which explains why you saw a request for /foobar **s**
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/adapters/rest.js.es6#L64-L69](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/adapters/rest.js.es6#L64-L69)
---
### Author:  [@Kampfkarren](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kampfkarren)
#### Post date: [25.Сентябрь.2018 03:25:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-erroneously-requesting-plural-of-route/97962/4 "2018-09-25T03:25:08Z")
So is there anyway to specify a route _without_ a model? Am I missing the point of routes?