RESTful Routing

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I am new to the routing scheme for RESTful actions on the edge. I am trying to stray off of the CRUD path a little here and finding the terrain a little bumpy.

I am trying to call the method TopicsController#toggle_lock. Topics belong to Forums, so we have this structure in the routes.rb:

  map.resources :forums do |forum|     forum.resources :topics do |topic|       topic.resources :posts       topic.resources :member => { :toggle_lock => :get }     end   end

when I try to hit http://localhost/forums/1/topics/5;toggle_lock I get a 404.

What am I doing wrong?

What is the best way to test this stuff?

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Got it to work!

  map.resources :forums do |forum|     forum.resources :topics do |topic|       topic.resources :posts     end     forum.resources :topics, :member => { :toggle_lock => :post }   end

And since there aren't any examples out there with tests, here is my test:

  def test_should_toggle_lock     login_as :aaron     post :toggle_lock, :forum_id => forums(:comics).id, :id => topics(:galactus).id     assert_redirected_to topic_path(forums(:comics), topics(:galactus))     assert_equal 'Topic has been locked.', flash[:notice]   end

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Thank you Josh!