Let''s say I have a model class like this class Parent < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :things has_one :special_thing, :classname => ''Thing'', ... end and I want the associations to be handled by UserThingsController and UserSpecialThingsController respectively. Theny, apparently, I have to set up routes with explicit :controllers map.resources :parents do parent| parent.resources :things, :controller => :user_things parent.resource :special_thing, :controller => :user_special_things end Or is there a way to get this automatically? As I want to edit the nested resources in-place on the same page as their parent object, I have a view, that contains a forms like these <% form_for(@special_thing, :url => image_path) do |f| %> <%= f.text_field :name %> <% form_for(@things[0], :url => image_path) do |f| %> <%= f.text_field :name %> The first thing to notice is that I have to give the :url argument, for otherwise both forms would go to ThingsController instead of the "nested" controllers. Second, the element ids and names are unusable. What I get is <form action="/parent/1/special_thing" id="new_thing" method="post"> <input id="thing_name" name="thing[name]" type="text" /> Whereas what I need is, for the has_one case, <form action="/parent/1/special_thing" id="new_thing" method="post"> <input id="parent_special_thing_name" name="parent_special_thing[name]" type="text" /> and for the has_many case with the appropriate object ids used in names/ids. I just can''t get this stuff to do (easily) what I think it ought to do. That may well be an indication that I''m misunderstanding something considerably. What''s the right way? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:michael-q5aiKMLteq4b1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---