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rrivas
rrivas

Reputation: 260

Multiple routes to a single controller

I have a controller/model called contacts and I have 2 other models that have a many to many relationship with contacts, ie: users and franchises. I have been playing with nested routes and I can make /users/1/contacts work fine but what if I wanted to do /franchises/1/contacts? Is there a dynamic way to solve this? or would I need to do

if FRANCHISE
  <%= link_to "Edit", edit_franchise_contact_path(@contact) %>
elsif USER
  <%= link_to "Edit", edit_user_contact_path(@contact) %>
end

The only other method I can see is making a method in the respective controller that can deal with managing contacts. I appreciate the help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 966

Answers (1)

balu
balu

Reputation: 3689

What about polymorphic urls?

polymorphic_url(record_or_hash_or_array, options = {})

Constructs a call to a named RESTful route for the given record and returns the resulting URL string. For example:

# calls post_url(post)
polymorphic_url(post) # => "http://example.com/posts/1"
polymorphic_url([blog, post]) # => "http://example.com/blogs/1/posts/1"
polymorphic_url([:admin, blog, post]) # => "http://example.com/admin/blogs/1/posts/1"
polymorphic_url([user, :blog, post]) # => "http://example.com/users/1/blog/posts/1"
polymorphic_url(Comment) # => "http://example.com/comments"

In your case: polymorphic_url([@franchise_or_user, @contact], :action => :edit)

Or simply: edit_polymorphic_url([@franchise_or_user, @contact])

See: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Routing/PolymorphicRoutes.html

Upvotes: 1

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