Are you currently using the `show` route for the articles resource? Fun fact, if you delete this `show` method declaration, it would have no effect. Rails will automatically take over if you have a route pointed here but no method to deal with it. So if you actually want to get rid of `show`, you'd have to change your `config/routes.rb` as well: `resources :articles, :only => [:index, :new, :create, :edit, :update]` or `resources :articles, :except => [:show]` (I think all of us prefer the former form).