In my Rails 4 app, there are five models:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :administrations
has_many :calendars, through: :administrations
end
class Calendar < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :administrations
has_many :users, through: :administrations
has_many :posts
end
class Administration < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :calendar
end
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :calendar
end
class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :post
belongs_to :user
end
Currently, I structured my resources as follows:
Rails.application.routes.draw do
root to: 'pages#home'
devise_for :users, :path => 'account'
resources :calendars do
resources :posts, shallow: true
end
end
Now, I need to add the comments resource to the route file and I am considering nesting it with shallow: true within the posts resource, which is already a shallow resource, as follows:
Rails.application.routes.draw do
root to: 'pages#home'
devise_for :users, :path => 'account'
resources :calendars do
resources :posts, shallow: true do
resources :comments, shallow: true
end
end
end
I believe this is technically possible, but I am not sure this would be considered a good or bad practice.
Especially since, from what I understand in the Rails Guides, shallow nesting's main purpose is to avoid deep nesting.
In other words, are there technical reasons I may be overseeing as a Rails beginner that would make this a bad practice and cause significant problems in the future regarding the development of the app?
