Question

Suppose I have a Book model, which contains many Page models.

The routing for this would be as so:

map.resources :books do |book|
    book.resources :pages
end

Following the Rails default on this quickly leads to problems. Suppose Book #1 has 10 pages. The first Page in Book #2 will have this route:

/books/2/pages/11

This is a pretty bad route, what would make more sense is this:

/books/2/pages/1

Or even this:

/books/2/1

Is there a way to still use map.resources, but get a result like this:

/books/{book.id}/pages/{page.page_number}

Answer 1

No. You have to use custom routing for that.

Feel free to get inspiration from http://github.com/augustl/kii/blob/master/config/routes.rb