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Tyler DeWitt
Tyler DeWitt

Reputation: 23576

Rails Nested Routes

I'd like the have the following routes:

sports/1

calls the show method for sport with id = 1.

sports/about/1

shows an "about" page for sport with id = 1.

Right now I have:

 resources :sports

in routes.rb.

If I try to go to

sports/about/1

I get an error because of course no sport has id = about.

Can I do something like this?

Edit

To clarify, I just have an about action in my sports_controller. Thanks for both methods though (controller and action)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5742

Answers (4)

Jesse Guardiani
Jesse Guardiani

Reputation: 27

I think this is the most straight forward way to do it:

resources :sports do
 collection do
resources 'about'
end
end

Or maybe:

namespace :sports do
 resources 'about'
end

Depending on whether you want a separate about controller or not.

Upvotes: 0

Rafael Martinez
Rafael Martinez

Reputation: 792

You can do almost anything you want with rails routes.

EDIT: Now a more complete (and correct) solution:

First you declare a new REST action in the sports resource:

resources :sports do
  get 'about', :on => :member
end

Then, to change the normal URL behavior url/sports/id/about to url/sports/about/id you should use:

match 'sports/about/:id', :controller => 'sports', :action => 'about'}

Upvotes: 4

rhodee
rhodee

Reputation: 1267

This should take care of your routes, but you really ought to check out the RailsGuides on the subject.

resources :sports do
  resources :about
end

This will give you routes like sports/:sport_id/about/:id. Of course you need to set the value of the sport in your form_for(@sport, @about) do |f| call or something like it.

Upvotes: 1

mohamagdy
mohamagdy

Reputation: 2093

In the routes.rb write the following in the same order 

match 'sports/about/:id' => 'sports#show', :as => :sport
resources :sports

To show a sport use sport_path(@sport)

Upvotes: 0

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