Rails - Jun 2007 - resource routes where singular and plural are the same

I have a question regarding routes for resources that have the same
name in the singular and plural.  For example, if I have:

  map.resources :series do |series|
     series.resources :characters
  end

then ''new_series_url'' generates
''/series/new'', however I get the
following error when I hit that url:

series_url failed to generate from {:action=>"show",
:controller=>"series"} - you may have ambiguous routes, or you may
need to supply additional parameters for this route.  content_url has
the following required parameters: ["series", :id] - are they all
satisifed?

I''m presuming here it assumes I want the url for an existing series.
I am able to create series if I use a singleton resource, e.g.:

  map.resources :series

however, this fouls up the nesting of my characters resource causing
''new_character_url(:series_id => @series)''  to generate the
following
url:

  http://localhost:3000/series/characters/new?series_id=16

which makes some sense, as I''ve now said series is a singleton
resource.  So, my question is how do I disambiguate between series
(plural) and series (singular) when using non-singleton resources and
generated url helpers to get properly nested resources?

Thanks,

pt.

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Hey,

I explain how here:

http://somethinglearned.com/articles/2007/03/19/how-to-uncountable-names-in-restful-routes

HTH,
Trevor

On 6/3/07, Parker Thompson
<parkert-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> I have a question regarding routes for resources that have the same
> name in the singular and plural.  For example, if I have:
>
>   map.resources :series do |series|
>      series.resources :characters
>   end
>
> then ''new_series_url'' generates
''/series/new'', however I get the
> following error when I hit that url:
>
> series_url failed to generate from {:action=>"show",
> :controller=>"series"} - you may have ambiguous routes, or you
may
> need to supply additional parameters for this route.  content_url has
> the following required parameters: ["series", :id] - are they all
> satisifed?
>
> I''m presuming here it assumes I want the url for an existing
series.
> I am able to create series if I use a singleton resource, e.g.:
>
>   map.resources :series
>
> however, this fouls up the nesting of my characters resource causing
> ''new_character_url(:series_id => @series)''  to
generate the following
> url:
>
>   http://localhost:3000/series/characters/new?series_id=16
>
> which makes some sense, as I''ve now said series is a singleton
> resource.  So, my question is how do I disambiguate between series
> (plural) and series (singular) when using non-singleton resources and
> generated url helpers to get properly nested resources?
>
> Thanks,
>
> pt.
>
> >
>

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Trevor Squires
http://somethinglearned.com

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