Hi,
I find it would be very convenient to nest resources in two levels, so a member is only sensible as a part of a club, and a fee pament is only sensible in the context of a club and a member. Is it possible to nest nested resources? How would the syntax be?
I have tried just nesting the assignment in routes.rb, but failed to get it right
What do ou think? Is it possible?
/Fredrik
map.resources :foos do |foo| foo.resources :bars do |bar| bar.resources :bazs end end
Alternatively:
map.resources :foos do |foo| foo.resources :bars, :has_many => :bazs end
Hi Fredrik,
Just a small warning from my own experience: nesting deeper than 1 level is not advised. It will become very tedious to keep supplying the unneeded lower levels of nesting in the url. If you know the "bar", you implicitly also know the "foo". So there is really no need to keep suppling the "foo", "bar" & "baz" all the time.
I generally use the following nesting setup:
map.resources :foos do |foo| foo.resources :bars end
map.resources :bars do |bar| bar.resources :bazs end
map.resources :bazs
This way your routes to the "baz" don't require a "foo". Also, if you know the "baz" resource, you can always create a direct route. For the index, new & create actions on "baz", you can the choose the route which also requires the "bar" to define the scope.
Regards, Bas
+1. It's been widely discussed elsewhere and many of the insiders suggest not nesting more than 2 levels deep.