I have two resources:
resources :users do
resources :cars
end
The association is:
When doing that kind of nested resourcing, I get urls like:
/users/:id/cars/new
My question is:
If it makes more sense to do just /cars/new (without the /users/:id) because I get the :id from the current_user logged in, how would I solve that in the routes?
The correct answer for this question is:
resources :users do
collection do
resources :cars
end
end
I wouldn't use nested routes at all. You can have nested models without having to have nested routes. Just load the current user from the session (you're probably doing this already), and make sure no one can access the cars controller unless they're logged in.
In routes.rb
resources :cars, :only => [:new, :create] # if you don't need all actions
resources :users do
resources :cars
end
In cars controller something like
before_filter :find_user
...
private
def find_user
@user = params[:user_id] ? User.find(params[:user_id]) : current_user
end
