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Tom Pinchen
Tom Pinchen

Reputation: 2497

RESTFUL routing with the same page

I am looking to find the best way to setup the routes for my app.

The application allows users to register, post jobs and apply for jobs. The issue I am having is that two routes that should really show different things are linking through to the same pages.

My routes are as follows:

 resources :users do
   resources :apps
 end

 resources :jobs do
   resources :apps
 end

As a result of this I end up with two paths: 

users/id/apps
jobs/id/apps

What I would like to do is use the first path to show job applications that a user has completed. I would then like to use the second path to show the owner of the job the applications they have received for that job.

The issue I am having is that both paths end up at apps#index

Any advice people can offer on how to best route this would be much appreciated! :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 85

Answers (2)

edralph
edralph

Reputation: 1831

Both those paths are potentially fine for what you want to do. When a request comes into

users/:user_id/apps

then you'll be able to do something like this in your controller to populate the list of apps:

@apps = User.find_by_id(params[:user_id]).apps

And in the case of the other path, you'll do the same but with params[:jobs_id], e.g.

@apps = Job.find_by_id(params[:job_id]).apps

In your controller you would have some conditional code that builds @apps depending on which path the request came in via (by looking to see if :user_id or :job_id is in params)... something like this:

if params[:user_id]
    @apps = User.find_by_id(params[:user_id]).apps
elsif params[:job_id]
    @apps = Job.find_by_id(params[:job_id]).apps
end

or maybe refactored to...

if params[:user_id]
    @user = User.find(params[:user_id])
    @apps = @user.apps
elsif params[:job_id]
    @job = Job.find(params[:job_id])
    @apps = @job.apps
end

Upvotes: 2

Ervi B
Ervi B

Reputation: 800

If you use the "resources" keyword, rails will just map to the default routes.
If you would like specific routes to map to something else, you should consider using "match."
For example:

match "users/id/apps" => "users/id/apps"
match "jobs/id/owners" => "jobs/id/owners"

This page shows a more detailed usage of it: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html
You also have the options to change the route to something else or the code itself.
Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 1

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