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Jeff Burghess
Jeff Burghess

Reputation: 383

Named routes for nested resources

I'm actually having trouble finding the documentation for this so if you have a link handy that would be really appreciated too.

So I have:

resources :users do 
  resources :posts, only: [:index, :create, :show] 
  end

I wanted to access the index action of posts through a named route. I tried this: <%= link_to 'User Posts', user_posts_path %> but it said it was missing user_id. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 202

Answers (2)

oreoluwa
oreoluwa

Reputation: 5623

When using the nested resource routes, you would need to provide the reference id of the parent resource. In your case resource user. You could do: user_posts_path(user). The route generated would be something like: /users/1/posts where 1 is the :user_id or if you would rather want a route like: /users/posts you should do:

resources :users do
  collection do
    resources :posts
  end
end

Find full routing documentation here

Upvotes: 2

mr_sudaca
mr_sudaca

Reputation: 1176

it's asking for user_id because you're defining :users as a resource, change it for a namespace instead:

namespace :users do 
  resources :posts, only: [:index, :create, :show] 
end

Upvotes: 0

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