nested resources and collection weirdness

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I need the route /events/:event_id/races/edit, so:

  map.resources :events do |event|     event.resources :races, :collection => {:edit => :get}   end

Which produces this:

edit_event_races GET /events/:event_id/races/edit(.:format) {:action=>"edit", :id=>/[^\/.?]+/, :controller=>"races"}

This is exactly what I expected except for the weirdness over at :id

As a result, edit_event_races_path(@event) or edit_event_races_path (@event.id) is blowing up in my face:

edit_event_races_url failed to generate from {:controller=>"races", :action=>"edit", :event_id=>#<Event id: 1, name: "Ride Sally Ride">, :id=>/[^\/.?]+/}

Am I doing something wrong here?

2

I'm aware that the route /events/:event_id/races/:race_id/edit exists but that is not what I want. My goal is to edit all the races collectively, not individually, so I need the route mentioned above.

3

Sounds like what you're after is an "event/#/index" that:

1) paginates the associated "races" into a 2) table that can be editted by 2a) individual field 2b) selected groups of fields 3) with a save that only saves modified "race" records

I may be wrong but that doesn't sound like a restful route to me.