Rails - Jul 2009 - Nested ARes models

I have two ARecord models, Company and Employee, that are both
serviced by RESTful controllers.  I want to create a nested
ActiveResource-based front end that makes calls on this RESTful
interface.  In my front-end client routes.rb I have

map.resources   :companies do |company|
  company.resources  :employee
end.

Then in my client company.rb model, I have

class Company < ActiveResource::Base
  self.site = "http://localhost:3000"
end

and in employee.rb

class Employee < ActiveResource::Base
  self.site = "http://localhost:3000/companies/:company_id"
end

How do I create and save a new employee instance?

With

@company = Company.find(1)

I''ve tried

employee = Employee.new(:name => "Jeff", :city =>
"Portland",
{:company_id => @company.id})

But I just get a compile error.  I don''t see what''s wrong.