Hiding URL params

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Hello,

How can I hide params on the URL? If I have the following resources, how can I hide the groups resources on the URL when showing posts?

map.resources :groups do |groups|   groups.resources :posts end

Normally it will be groups/1/posts/1

I want the URL to show only posts/1 and have the group_id and controller_name invisible.

Thanks,

Elías

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then don't nest the resources

map.resources :groups map.resources :posts

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Hi Jemminger,

The thing is that I need that group_id to perform some queries on the posts_controller.

Elías

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Well, Long Version of the problem:

I know that is impossible unless I have a session or maybe sending an extra param at the end of the url. The app I am creating is built around the concept of groups. So a user can belong to various groups and make posts and events on each of them. They also want the users profiles to stand-alone on the URL without the group preceding. So a user profile will show all his/her activity on all the groups. But then, If I am navigating through a group and click on a user who created and event I will be taken to he/she's profile and all the menu links for group events and posts will be broken because those links where created with the group_id. So now I there's no reference to which group I was navigating. That's why I asked if maybe I could have it there but hidden.

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if your Post belongs_to a Group, then you can reference by @post.group_id