Question

I have the following resources setup:

resources :sites do
  resources :documents
  # more nested here
end


resources :documents do
  resources :notes, :except => [:show, :new, :edit]
end

I want the notes controller to have the document context. The problem is, the document controller itself depends on the site context. So the /document urls that are created from the above all throw a 500 error. I could adjust the controller code to handle this, but i wonder if there’s a way to not create the /document urls, just: /document/#id/notes

Answer 1

For any one else that may have this problem You can restrict the routes you don’t want by using :except just the way @agmcleod has for the :notes. So to restrict the document urls would either be:

resources :sites do
    resources :documents, :except => [:index, :show, :new, :create, :edit, :update, :destroy]
    # more nested here
end

or

resources :documents, :except => [:index, :show, :new, :create, :edit, :update, :destroy] do
    resource :notes, :except => [:show, :new, :edit]
end

You can remove any of the actions as necessary.