REST and nested resources more than one level?

rubyonrails-talk
1

Is it possible to nest a resource more than a single level? For example something like this:

map.resources :articles do |article|     article.resources :comments do |comment|         comment.resources :foo     end   end

2

Don’t see why not. Have you tried it and had problems?

Jason

3

The scenario explained in that article is pretty specific. There are many instances where nesting further than a single level deep is necessary. For example, if you were creating CRM system, you may have a structure like:

map.resources :customers do |customers|     customers.resources :ships do |ships|         ships.resources :accounts     end end

Here, each customer can have many shipping addresses and for each shipping address there can be many ship accounts (ups, fedex, etc). In addition, a shipping account is only associated with a single shipping address and therefore should only be referenced through the shipping address.