RoR custom routing/Method/View problem all methods come back as undefined
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I am playing with custom view and routes. I think that I have everything right but obviously not. Essentially I tried to copy the show method and show.html.erb but for some reason it will not work.
My controller
    class fatherController < ApplicationController
      def show
        @father = Father.find(params[:id])
        respond_to do |format|
         format.html # show.html.erb
         format.xml  { render :xml => @father }
        end
      end
      def ofmine
        @father = Father.find(params[:id])
        respond_to do |format|
          format.html # show.html.erb
          format.xml  { render :xml => @father }
        end
      end
   end
My routes.rb
Parent::Application.routes.draw do
  resources :fathers do
     resources :kids
  end 
  match 'hospitals/:id/ofmine' => 'father#show2'
end
when I go to
127.0.0.1:/father/1
it works fine but when I try to go to
127.0.0.1:/father/1/ofmine
it gives the following error. It doesn't matter what the variable/method that is called; it occurs at the first one to be displayed. Both show.html.erb and show2.html.erb are the exact same files
My Error from webserver commandline
> Processing by fathersController#show2
> as HTML   Parameters: {"id"=>"1"}
> Rendered fathers/show2.html.erb within
> layouts/application (31.6ms) Completed
> in 37ms
> 
> ActionView::Template::Error (undefined
> method `name' for nil:NilClass):
>     4:         <td>Name</td><td></td>
>     5:     </tr>
>     6:     <tr>
>     7:  <td><%= @father.name %></td><td></td>
>     8:     </tr>
>     9:     <tr>
>     10:  <td>City</td><td>State</td>   app/views/fathers/show2.html.erb:7:in
> `_app_views_fatherss_show__html_erb___709193087__616989688_0'
Error as displayed on actual page
NoMethodError in Fathers#show2
Showing /var/ruby/chs/app/views/fathers/show2.html.erb where line #7 raised:
undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass
Extracted source (around line #7):
4: Name 5:
6: 7: <%= @father.name %> 8:
9: 10: CityState
If anyone could tell me what in the world I am doing wrong I would appreciate it greatly.
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