Rails route for nested model

Question

I have a rails model that is nested:

# app/models/frontend/item.rb
class Frontend::Item < Item
end

When I call

form_for(@frontend_item)

It tries to go to the '/frontend/items' path.

Is there a way to make it go to '/items' instead (without the inherited '/frontend')

You seem to be confusing resources and models. Models are not nested, but contained. So, your FrontEnd contains items. — Salil, Jun 05 '12 at 06:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 04 '12 at 15:20

0

You might have done this already but you tried

rake routes

answered Jun 04 '12 at 15:20

Benjamin

Not sure how seeing the routes will help.. can you elaborate ? – Boris Jun 04 '12 at 16:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 04 '12 at 15:25

0

There is a very nice example of precisely what you want in the rails guides:

~Charles~

answered Jun 04 '12 at 15:25

thisfeller

I fail to see an example of that.. note that I am nesting Models not resources in routes. – Boris Jun 04 '12 at 16:55

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '12 at 18:24

You've explicitly namespaced a Frontend::Item as a separate model from Item. Thus, a frontend_item properly routes to /frontend/items/:id.

To override that, add the following line to your routes file:

# routes.rb
match 'item/:id' => 'Frontend::Item#show'

Note that this will now conflict with the route for your Item model so you should remove that route.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '12 at 08:05

0

The solution was to create a scope section:

# config/routes.rb
scope :module => "frontend", :as => 'frontend' do
  resources :items
end

answered Jul 02 '12 at 08:05

Boris

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