Question

I have the following routes, which allows for urls like /:username/:project_name

resources :users, :path => "/" do
  resources :projects, :path => "/"
end

The problem is that /:username/edit doesn’t work, because it is looking for a project with the name of ‘edit’.

Any way around this? Thanks!

Answer 1

A couple ways of doing this…

1) Will give you routes like /:user_id/:id (which you wanted)

match '/:user_id/edit', :to => 'users#edit', :as => :edit_user
resources :users, :except => [:edit], :path => "/" do
  resources :projects, :path => "/"
end

2) Will give you routes like /:user_id/projects/:id (which it seems like you’re avoiding)

resources :users, :path => "/" do
  resources :projects
end

I personally prefer #2 since it is cleaner and provides more knowledge about the route at a glance.