Question

I know how to do this with match but I really want to do it in the resource block. Here’s what I have (simplified):

resources :stories do
  member do
    'put' collaborator
    'delete' collaborator
  end
end

I am looking for a way to allow the same action name in the URL but have different entry points in the controller. At the moment I’ve got in my controller:

# PUT /stories/1/collaborator.json
def add_collaborator
  ...
end

# DELETE /stories/1/collaborator.json
def remove_collaborator
  ...
end

So I tried this:

resources :stories do
  member do
    'put' collaborator, :action => 'add_collaborator'
    'delete' collaborator, :action => 'remove_collaborator'
  end
end

but this didn’t seem to work when I wrote an rspec unit test:

describe "PUT /stories/1/collaborator.json" do
  it "adds a collaborator to the story" do
    story = FactoryGirl.create :story
    collaborator = FactoryGirl.create :user

    xhr :put, :collaborator, :id => story.id, :collaborator_id => collaborator.id

    # shoulds go here...
end

end

I get this error:

Finished in 0.23594 seconds
5 examples, 1 failure, 1 pending

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/controllers/stories_controller_spec.rb:78 # StoriesController PUT    
  /stories/1/collaborator.json adds a collaborator to the story

I’m assuming this error is because the way I’m trying to define my routes is incorrect…any suggestions?

Answer 1

Is the following better?

resources :stories do
 member do
   put 'collaborator' => 'controller_name#add_collaborator' 
   delete 'collaborator' => 'controller_name#remove_collaborator'
 end
end

You should also check your routes by launching in a terminal:

$ rake routes > routes.txt

And opening the generated routes.txt file to see what routes are generated from your routes.rb file.