I think it make a lot of sense. I'd +1 on this. I think since we already know what portion of the path is called, we can do something simple like:
if record.respond_to? :project path_portion[1] = record.prefix end (that's psudocode btw, the actual impl will be more complex. Just to get you the idea.) - Prem On Jun 4, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Duncan Beevers wrote: > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Ryan Bigg <radarliste...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Oh, reading this again it seems I was wrong. >> >> How would it guess the associations? > > Indeed > > The way that many apps deal with this pain is using shortcut urls like > /issues/5 that simply get the indicated record, look up the parent > records, and then figure out permissions based on the "implicit" > hierarchy. > >> >> -- >> Ryan Bigg >> >> On Tuesday, 5 June 2012 at 3:10, Michael Boutros wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I'm working on a Rails app and I have resources nested three deep - let's >> call them user, project, and issues. The route helpers now look like >> user_project_issue_path(@user, @project, @issue). Would it make sense for >> Rails to guess the @user and @project relations from @issue? It just feels >> like a lot of redundant and non-DRY code. I'm willing to write the code >> myself (or die trying), but I just wanted to make sure this isn't by design. >> >> - Michael Boutros >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-core/-/2jig2rKv1xMJ. >> To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. >> To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.