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

I wanted something like this too, clearly it feels redundant to type the prefixes in named routes all the time for resources that only exist as nested. I was able to get what I wanted using scope, I think this is what you sought too:

resources :sites

scope :path => '/sites/:site_id' do
  resources :groups, :controller => :url_groups do
    post :clone, :on => :member
  end
end

scope :path => '/sites/:site_id/groups/:group_id' do
  resources :tests, :controller => :test_runs do
    get :latest, :on => :collection
  end
end

The rake routes output:

       sites GET        /sites(.:format)                                             sites#index
             POST       /sites(.:format)                                             sites#create
    new_site GET        /sites/new(.:format)                                         sites#new
   edit_site GET        /sites/:id/edit(.:format)                                    sites#edit
        site GET        /sites/:id(.:format)                                         sites#show
             PUT        /sites/:id(.:format)                                         sites#update
             DELETE     /sites/:id(.:format)                                         sites#destroy
 clone_group POST       /sites/:site_id/groups/:id/clone(.:format)                   url_groups#clone
      groups GET        /sites/:site_id/groups(.:format)                             url_groups#index
             POST       /sites/:site_id/groups(.:format)                             url_groups#create
   new_group GET        /sites/:site_id/groups/new(.:format)                         url_groups#new
  edit_group GET        /sites/:site_id/groups/:id/edit(.:format)                    url_groups#edit
       group GET        /sites/:site_id/groups/:id(.:format)                         url_groups#show
             PUT        /sites/:site_id/groups/:id(.:format)                         url_groups#update
             DELETE     /sites/:site_id/groups/:id(.:format)                         url_groups#destroy
latest_tests GET        /sites/:site_id/groups/:group_id/tests/latest(.:format)      test_runs#latest
       tests GET        /sites/:site_id/groups/:group_id/tests(.:format)             test_runs#index
             POST       /sites/:site_id/groups/:group_id/tests(.:format)             test_runs#create
    new_test GET        /sites/:site_id/groups/:group_id/tests/new(.:format)         test_runs#new
   edit_test GET        /sites/:site_id/groups/:group_id/tests/:id/edit(.:format)    test_runs#edit
        test GET        /sites/:site_id/groups/:group_id/tests/:id(.:format)         test_runs#show
             PUT        /sites/:site_id/groups/:group_id/tests/:id(.:format)         test_runs#update
             DELETE     /sites/:site_id/groups/:group_id/tests/:id(.:format)         test_runs#destroy

Update: Duh, I left the static segments of the scope paths out of my example. Fixed.