Question

Can you please help me? I got stuck!

I implemented a single table inheritance for a model “Customer”. “Person” and “Company” are “Customers”. So I added two new routes to forward all requests to the CustomersController:

resources :customers                             # added by generator
resources :people,    :controller => 'customers' <== NEW
resources :companies, :controller => 'customers' <== NEW

What I want to do is

1. add a parameter “type” to the action “new” of resource :customers
2. add a default value “Person” and “Company” to the “type” parameter in both other resources (if the parameter gets inherited!?)

My goal is to be able to call

new_customer_path(:type => 'Person')

and

new_person_path

I tried the following before, but it stopped other actions (like show) from working

resources :people, :controller => 'customers' do
  get 'new', :on => :member, :type => 'Person'
end

Can anyone out there tell me about my mistake?

Answer 1

Try adding the parameter to the resources arguments

resources :people,    :controller => 'customers', :type => "Person"
resources :companies, :controller => 'customers', :type => "Company"