short nested rails routes

Question

I have routes such as:

somedomain.com/cities/prague/places/astronomical-clock

  resources :cities do
    resources :places
    resources :images
  end

I know I can do something like:

  match '/:id' => 'cities#show', :as => 'short_city' # /prague

but what can I do about having short nested routes?

ie. /prague/astronomical-clock?

And could/should I make where it overwrites the default url_for methods?

nickaknudson · Answer 1 · 2012-08-08T15:25:00.957

You'll have a slight issue differentiating between places and images, but this should work without any controller modification (assuming your above nested routes work)

match ':city_id/:id' => 'places#show'

OR

match ':city_id/:id' => 'images#show'

to differentiate between then I would recommend

match ':city_id/places/:id' => 'places#show'
match ':city_id/images/:id' => 'images#show'

OR dynamically assign the controller

match ':city_id/:controller/:id', :action => :show

RESOURCES

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#dynamic-segments

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '12 at 18:05

I would agree with Nick's answer but add that if you want to supersede the url_for method you can use :as

match '/:id' => 'cities#show', :as => 'city'
match ':city_id/:id' => 'places#show', :as => 'city_place'

This way it overwrites the usual city_path url_for methods.

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