restful nested and unnested routes

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Hi,

I´ve problems with the restful routes.

I know that /artists/1/songs works:

  map.resources :artists do | artists |      artists.resources :songs    end

But how can I route to a list of all songs with artist, something like /songs ... in a restful manner.

Thanks Sebastian

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You could create a separate top-level song resource to accomplish this, e.g.,

map.resources :artists do |artist|   artist.resources :songs, :name_prefix => 'artist_' end map.resources :songs

This would create routes for a top-level song resource as well as your original nested song resource. The top-level song resource will have the usual route helpers. Because of the :name_prefix option, the route helpers for the nested song resource will have "artist_" prepended to their name to prevent them from conflicting with the top-level song resource, e.g., artist_songs_path(X) => /artists/X/songs.

-John