Question

New to ruby on rails, trying to get this url structure:

/about
/about/staff
/about/contact
/about/brazil
/about/brazil/staff
/about/brazil/contact

When I do:

rails generate controller about index
rails generate controller about staff
rails generate controller about contact

I set my routes to:

get "about", :to => "about#index"
get "about/staff", :to => "about#staff"
get "about/contact", :to => "about#contact"

And all is well, but I got stumped when I need to do the same for a third level for the brazil office

Should I just do

rails generate controller about brazil_index
rails generate controller about brazil_staff
rails generate controller about brazil_contact

get "about/brazil", :to => "about#brazil_index"
get "about/brazil/staff", :to => "about#brazil_staff"
get "about/brazil/contact", :to => "about#brazil_contact"

Or is there a cleaner way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

I think you want to call this rails generate controller About index staff contact

to generate AboutController with three actions index, staff and contact. Then you want to allow passing in id parameter as the second path element:

Then in config/routes.rb:

  get "about/index"
  get "about/staff"
  get "about/contact"
  get "about/:id/index" => 'about#index'
  get "about/:id/staff" => 'about#staff'
  get "about/:id/contact" => 'about#contact'

When I check routes with rake routes I see now:

$ rake routes
  about_index GET /about/index(.:format)       {:controller=>"about", :action=>"index"}
  about_staff GET /about/staff(.:format)       {:controller=>"about", :action=>"staff"}
about_contact GET /about/contact(.:format)     {:controller=>"about", :action=>"contact"}
              GET /about/:id/index(.:format)   {:controller=>"about", :action=>"index"}
              GET /about/:id/staff(.:format)   {:controller=>"about", :action=>"staff"}
              GET /about/:id/contact(.:format) {:controller=>"about", :action=>"contact"}

You can now request http://localhost:3000/about/brazil/staff and the value of params[:id] will be “brazil”.