Question

I need a link, which would point to all jobs, tagged as PHP. This structure makes sense to me:

site.com/jobs/skills/php

How do I do this in Rails?

  resources :jobs do
    collection do
      resources :skills, as: :find_by_skill
    end
  end

However, this does not work, when I try to call the jobs_find_by_skill(skill) helper. Where is a problem? If this cannot be done, could you suggest a better URL structure for this kind of purpose?

Answer 1

You mix up tags and skills here. I’m using tags for this answer.

The most common way would to make your url working would be nested resources

resources :jobs do
  resources :tags
end

Remember not to put subsequent resources in collection or member blocks. Then have a tags_controller.rb like this for example

class TagsController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @jobs = Tag.find_by_name(params[:id]).jobs
  end
end

The corresponding association of Job and Tag needs to be there as well.

Hope that get you further.