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user2784630
user2784630

Reputation: 806

How to use same RESTFUL name/route with same action?

I have the models Dad, Mom and Kid. I'm already using the kid's index action for Dad and made another action in the Kids controller called mom_index for Mom's since a kid belongs to a mom and a dad.

Right now the Dad's route goes to:

dad_kids GET    /dads/:dad_id/kids(.:format)      kids#index

Because of: 

resources :dads do
  resources :kids
end

I need my Mom's route to go to:

mom_kids GET    /moms/:mom_id/kids(.:format)      kids#mom_index

But doing this:

resources :moms do
  resources :kids
end

Uses the kid's index action which is already being used by the dad. How can I get it to do this using the Kids mom_index action instead?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 70

Answers (2)

Richard Peck
Richard Peck

Reputation: 76774

You could just use an if statement to check whether the request is for dads or moms etc:

#app/controllers/kids_controller.rb
Class KidsController < ApplicationController
   def index
      if params[:mom_id].present?
          # mom logic
      elsif params[:dad_id].present?
          #dad logic
      end
   end
end

An alternative would be to set different controllers (however this is not recommended as it's not DRY):

#config/routes.rb
resources :moms do
   resources :moms_kids, as: "kids" #-> domain.com/moms/:mom_id/kids
end

Upvotes: 3

Alex Peachey
Alex Peachey

Reputation: 4686

You are better off either having the kids controller know how to deal with being used by either the dads or moms namespace or making two separate resources called dads_kids and moms_kids.

So for the first option you would leave what you have as far as routes but make the kids controller action smarter/overloaded.

For the second option you would do:

resources :dads do
  resources :dads_kids
end

resources :moms do
  resources :moms_kids
end

Then you would have 2 controllers dads_kids_controller.rb and moms_kids_controller.rb.

Upvotes: 2

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