Hi guys,just wondering if someone could enlighten me about this.
Is it possible to have multi nested resources like
map.resources :owners do |owner| owner.resources :dogs, :controller => 'dogs', :singular => 'dog', :name_prefix => 'owner_' owner.resources :cats, :controller => 'cats', :singular => 'cat', :name_prefix => 'owner_' end
Just having a bit of trouble with routes... thanks!
You may be having trouble generating routes like I did when I first
stated playing with it. 
To generate a route to, say, a dog, you'll to provide something like this:
owner_dog_path(@owner_id, @dog_id)
Then Rails builds the URL off of the two id's to produce something like http://yourapp.com/owners/1/dogs/2 or what have you.
I suggest read the PDF mentioned here:
http://www.rubyinside.com/restful-rails-development-pdf-released-392.html
...and referring to this cheatsheet:
...whenever you need it.
--Jeremy
Jeremy is right -- you can next as deeply as you like. However, the deeper you go the more difficult it becomes to create the routes. I've got one spot in a project that is nested two levels deep and the code gets a bit annoying.
AndyV
I had nested about five levels deep on a project before we realized it was stupid and we de-nested. The route generation looked something like this:
site_section_unit_text_activity_file_path(params[:site_id], params[:section_id], params[:unit_id], params[:text_id], params[:activity_id], params[:id])
Ridiculous.
--Jeremy
Hmm but I'm not trying to nest too deeply. It's more like having two equal nests? An Owner can have a dog as well as a cat (let's not get into like polymorphism for this case first =). How do you denote that on the routes?
url path would be like:
owner/1/dog/1 and owner/1/cat/1
argh ignore what I have posted, I found out the error of my ways... I forgot to put the prefix when i specified like:
cat_path
should have been
owner_cat_path. doh.
Thanks all =)