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The Whiz of Oz
The Whiz of Oz

Reputation: 7043

Rails - nesting routes within the same controller

I'm totally confused trying to route my app. I have a bunch of events, and each should have a photo gallery.

However I would like to keep everything within the same EVENT controller (btw, another question - how reasonable is that?). So the user can go on the Edit Event page and have a menu on the left side with links, one of which will be his gallery.

So I've added this to my event controller:

def gallery
  @event = Event.find(params[:id])
end

The URI should be (I guess?): site/event/777/gallery/edit

How can I route that? And what will be the _path?

Thank you for any help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 190

Answers (2)

vee
vee

Reputation: 38645

The following configuration in your config/routes.rb should give you what you want: 

resources :events do 
  resources :galleries
end

And this will give you event_galleries_path. And, this will give you event_galleries_path. Following are the seven paths the above configuration will provide: 

      event_galleries GET    /events/:event_id/galleries(.:format)              galleries#index
                      POST   /events/:event_id/galleries(.:format)              galleries#create
    new_event_gallery GET    /events/:event_id/galleries/new(.:format)          galleries#new
   edit_event_gallery GET    /events/:event_id/galleries/:id/edit(.:format)     galleries#edit
        event_gallery GET    /events/:event_id/galleries/:id(.:format)          galleries#show
                      PUT    /events/:event_id/galleries/:id(.:format)          galleries#update
                      DELETE /events/:event_id/galleries/:id(.:format)          galleries#destroy

The edit named route is: edit_event_gallery_path.

Then instead of adding the gallery method in your EventsController, so you'd create your edit, show and other other actions in your GalleriesController. 

# /events/:event_id/galleries/:id/edit
def edit
  @gallery = Gallery.find(params[:id])
end

# /events/:event_id/galleries/:id
def show 
  @event = Event.find(params[:event_id])

  # And your galleries, something like this
  @galleries = @event.galleries.find(params[:id])
end

Upvotes: 1

Nick Veys
Nick Veys

Reputation: 23939

I can think of no good reason to do this. Creating another file is trivial, have a GalleriesController with the usual show/edit/update/etc methods.

In your routes:

resources :events do
  resources :galleries

galleries_controller.rb:

class GalleriesController < ApplicationController

  # GET /events/1/galleries/1/edit
  def edit
    @event = Event.find(params[:event_id])
    @gallery = @event.galleries.find(params[:id])
  end

end

Upvotes: 2

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