RESTful design question

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Hello-

I'm working on an e-commerce app. Specifically, I'm working on how addresses are managed. An Order has_one Address. A User has_many Addresses. I defined some routes that look like this:

map.resources :orders, :has_one => [:address, :credit_card]

map.resources :users do |user|     user.resources :addresses     user.resources :credit_cards end

The issues is that my orders route is accessing the address like a singleton and my users route is accessing it like a normal resource.

What is the best way to handle this? Should I have one controller that can be used in both situations? Should I create two controllers, one singleton and one regular? Any other approaches that I might be missing?

Thanks in advance.

Regards, Eric

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In my ecommerce app I have customer model which has address
attributes. The order model has foreign key to customers table.

There are several ways to do it. I let the screens drive the design.
Pick the one that makes sense in your app.

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