Question

In my rails app, i have a create button as such

   def create
      @client = Client.find(params[:client_id])
      @inventory = @client.inventories.create(params[:inventory])
      redirect_to client_path(@client)
   end

which when an inventory is created (as a part of client, ex. client has_many inventories, inventories belongs_to clients), the inventory is added to the client in the database and it redirects to localhost:3000/client/(whatever the clients ID is)

However, i’m having a problem with my program because although it does the correct redirect, the address in the address bar after i push create is localhost:3000/client/1/inventories/1… and I only want it to be localhost:3000/client/1/ . If I actually do try to access localhost:3000/client/1/inventories/1, it gives me an error because I don’t have a show for inventories.

How is it possibly doing the correct redirect, but the wrong URL is displayed in my browser? By the way, this is in my routes.rb, which does not seem like the problem to me.

 resources :clients do
    resources :inventories
 end

Why is my app behaving like this? Any takers? :]

EDIT

When I type rake routes I see this.

The routes for create and destroy seem wrong. How do I change them?

Answer 1

A workaround to this problem is going to inventories controller and adding

 def index
     @client = Client.find(params[:client_id])
     redirect_to client_path(@client)
 end

Looks like this was the best way to handle the back button hitting these errors, it seems like you cannot control the address displayed in the address bar. At least we don’t know how.. 😛