Rails - Aug 2007 - routing to arbitrary deeply nested resources

I''ve got a tree of nodes to which I want to route requests. Currently
I''m using simple resource routing:

map.resources :nodes

Rather than a flat URLspace where all nodes are access via:

/nodes/id

I''d prefer an arbitrary deeply nested URLspace:

/nodes/id
/nodes/id/child
/nodes/id/child/grandchild

Both to make inserting new nodes simpler, and to make context-specific
searching easier.

Can anyone suggest how I might approach this problem?

- donald

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Ball, Donald A Jr (Library) wrote:
> I''ve got a tree of nodes to which I want to route requests.
Currently
> I''m using simple resource routing:
> 
> map.resources :nodes
> 
> Rather than a flat URLspace where all nodes are access via:
> 
> /nodes/id
> 
> I''d prefer an arbitrary deeply nested URLspace:
> 
> /nodes/id
> /nodes/id/child
> /nodes/id/child/grandchild
> 
> Both to make inserting new nodes simpler, and to make context-specific
> searching easier.
> 
> Can anyone suggest how I might approach this problem?
> 
> - donald
Use * and write your own routing method? E.g.:

map.connect ''nodes/*rparams'',
   :controller => "nodes",
   :action => "router"

and rparams will be passed into router as an array of values.


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Michael Wang

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> > I''ve got a tree of nodes to which I want to route requests. 
> Currently 
> > I''m using simple resource routing:
> > 
> > map.resources :nodes
> > 
> > Rather than a flat URLspace where all nodes are access via:
> > 
> > /nodes/id
> > 
> > I''d prefer an arbitrary deeply nested URLspace:
> > 
> > /nodes/id
> > /nodes/id/child
> > /nodes/id/child/grandchild
> > 
> > Both to make inserting new nodes simpler, and to make 
> context-specific 
> > searching easier.
> > 
> > Can anyone suggest how I might approach this problem?
> > 
> > - donald
> 
> Use * and write your own routing method? E.g.:
> 
> map.connect ''nodes/*rparams'',
>    :controller => "nodes",
>    :action => "router"
> 
> and rparams will be passed into router as an array of values.
That''s a thought, thanks for the suggestion. Sadly, it means I
can''t use
any of the nice url generator methods provided by rails routing, but
it''d work. I''ll give it a whirl.

- donald

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