Rails Routing: Flexible Resource Path depending on attributes

Question

How could you make a route for resource be flexible enough depending on its attributes?

For example,

resources :articles, param: :article_slug do
    member do
      resources :comments
    end
end

Article has attributes of title, category, slug, etc

But the client wants it that the category must be the first present in url, such as: /entertainment/articles/:article_slug/comments/:id or /sports/articles/:article_slug/comments/:id. I don't know what is the right approach for this one.

what url you have now? after run `rake routes` – seaify - Freelancer Apr 24 '17 at 12:47 — seaify - Freelancer, Apr 24 '17 at 12:47
I just have the `/articles/:article_slug/comments/:id` – Jose Marie Antonio Miñoza Apr 24 '17 at 12:48 — Jose Marie Antonio Miñoza, Apr 24 '17 at 12:48

seaify - Freelancer · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-24T14:56:25.807

0

Try

scope path: ':category' do
  resources :articles, param: :article_slug do
      resources :comments
      end
  end
end

And generate the url in this way,

article_comment_path(@article, @comment, category: @article.category)

edited Apr 24 '17 at 14:56

answered Apr 24 '17 at 12:51

seaify - Freelancer

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Yes, it could work but category is attribute of `Article`. I'm trying to use some lambda methods but it doesn't work. – Jose Marie Antonio Miñoza Apr 24 '17 at 13:02
@JoseMarieAntonioMiñoza I have update the answer, you can check it. – seaify - Freelancer Apr 24 '17 at 14:56

Rails Routing: Flexible Resource Path depending on attributes

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