I have a couple of resources, one nested in the other, such that my resource spec in routes.rb is:
map.resources :parents, :has_many => :children
This will generate a route for a new child that assumes that the parent has already been saved, something like:
/parents/:parent_id/children/new
But what if I want a route that handles the case where the parent resource is also new, and thus does not have an id? One that would generate a URL that would look like:
/parents/new/children/new
to handle cases where I am composing a new parent by creating many children so that I can save everything at once?
Has anyone done this? Seems like I could do it two ways:
1) Write my own completely custom route 2) Explicitly write the route for /parents/:parent_id/children/new and just set the default value for :parent_id to "new" and make it go to the same place?
This is definitely an outgrowth of my resistance against saving stuff to the database before I absolutely have to, but I thought I would float it and see what people thought?
Thanks, Wes