change the URL without changing the resource name

ruby-on-rails-3 routing nested-resources
declan picture declan · Jul 22, 2011 · Viewed 21.7k times · Source

I'm building a website for a rabbit farmer (let's pretend). This man keeps a close eye on his rabbits, and wants them all categorized. So I built him a RabbitCategoriesController, and added this line to my routes.rb

resources :rabbit_categories

The URLs are showing up as rabbit_categories, rabbit_categoriew/new, etc.

What if I want the URLs to look like rabits/categories rabits/categories/new instead? This is not a nested resource, I just want to change the way the URLs look.

Of course, if the resources were called "categories", I could do

namespace :rabbits do
  resources :categories
end

Is there any way I can write that, but tell it to use the RabbitCategoriesController instead of the Rabbits::CategoriesController?

Answer

rubish picture rubish · Jul 22, 2011

have you tried this, should work

resources :rabbit_categories, :path => "rabbits/categories"

See Rails Routing from Outside In for more details.

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