RESTfully Nesting Resource Routes with Single Identifiers

Question

In my Rails app I have a fairly standard has_many relationship between two entities. A Foo has zero or more Bars; a Bar belongs to exactly

Answer 1

You're looking for shallow routes. As you pointed out, the idea of having a deeply nested route for things like creates, updates is unnecessary since you are targeting the desired record directly.

I have never actually done the shallow routing thing so I'll pass on the railscast episode where Ryan Bates explains it probably better than I could: 139 Nested Resources.

Edit: You can read up a little more on the guides for routing 3.8.4.