Question

I have this routes

resources :posts, :controller => 'frontend/posts' do
 resources :photos, :controller => 'frontend/posts'
end

So frontend/posts_controller handles these requests:

/posts/:post_id/photos/:id
/posts/:id

Somtimes the :id means the photo id and in some cases the post id.
I want that post always uses :post_id . Is it possible to rename :id in :post_id without adding custom(match …) routes?

thanks.

Answer 1

You should just write your finders to handle both cases. It’s easier than messing around with parameter names:

@post = Post.find(params[:post_id] || params[:id])

That being said, I agree that it’s annoying that the :id parameter changes names depending on the depth of the resource call.