Rails 3 nested resources short name?

Question

I\'m in the process of upgrading a Rails 2.3 app to Rails 3. In the Rails 2.3 router, it was possible to set a :name_prefix of nil on nested resources to get a sho

Answer 1

There's the :shallow option (see the documentation), but I'm not sure it fits your use case:

resources :sites, :shallow => true
  resources :groups do
    resources :tests
  end
end

It has the disadvantage of creating a bunch of additional routes:

   group_tests GET    /groups/:group_id/tests(.:format)        {:action=>"index", :controller=>"tests"}
               POST   /groups/:group_id/tests(.:format)        {:action=>"create", :controller=>"tests"}
new_group_test GET    /groups/:group_id/tests/creer(.:format)  {:action=>"new", :controller=>"tests"}
     edit_test GET    /tests/:id/modifier(.:format)            {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"tests"}
          test GET    /tests/:id(.:format)                     {:action=>"show", :controller=>"tests"}
               PUT    /tests/:id(.:format)                     {:action=>"update", :controller=>"tests"}
               DELETE /tests/:id(.:format)                     {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"tests"}
   site_groups GET    /sites/:site_id/groups(.:format)         {:action=>"index", :controller=>"groups"}
               POST   /sites/:site_id/groups(.:format)         {:action=>"create", :controller=>"groups"}
new_site_group GET    /sites/:site_id/groups/creer(.:format)   {:action=>"new", :controller=>"groups"}
    edit_group GET    /groups/:id/modifier(.:format)           {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"groups"}
         group GET    /groups/:id(.:format)                    {:action=>"show", :controller=>"groups"}
               PUT    /groups/:id(.:format)                    {:action=>"update", :controller=>"groups"}
               DELETE /groups/:id(.:format)                    {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"groups"}
         sites GET    /sites(.:format)                         {:action=>"index", :controller=>"sites"}
               POST   /sites(.:format)                         {:action=>"create", :controller=>"sites"}
      new_site GET    /sites/creer(.:format)                   {:action=>"new", :controller=>"sites"}
     edit_site GET    /sites/:id/modifier(.:format)            {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"sites"}
          site GET    /sites/:id(.:format)                     {:action=>"show", :controller=>"sites"}
               PUT    /sites/:id(.:format)                     {:action=>"update", :controller=>"sites"}
               DELETE /sites/:id(.:format)                     {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"sites"}

Besides, the shallow nesting only applies to the following routes: :show, :edit, :update, :destroy.