# Multi nested resources **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 20, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multi-nested-resources/112517 "2007-08-20T15:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![marc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@marc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marc)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multi-nested-resources/112517/1 "2007-08-20T15:45:13Z")
Hi guys,just wondering if someone could enlighten me about this. Is it possible to have multi nested resources like map.resources :owners do |owner| owner.resources :dogs, :controller =\> ‘dogs’, :singular =\> ‘dog’, :name\_prefix =\> ‘owner\_’ owner.resources :cats, :controller =\> ‘cats’, :singular =\> ‘cat’, :name\_prefix =\> ‘owner\_’ end Just having a bit of trouble with routes… thanks! ---
**Author:** ![marc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@marc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marc)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multi-nested-resources/112517/2 "2007-08-20T17:48:40Z")
Jeremy is right – you can next as deeply as you like. However, the deeper you go the more difficult it becomes to create the routes. I’ve got one spot in a project that is nested two levels deep and the code gets a bit annoying. AndyV On Aug 20, 9:47 am, “Jeremy McAnally” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![marc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@marc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marc)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multi-nested-resources/112517/3 "2007-08-20T19:25:52Z")
I had nested about five levels deep on a project before we realized it was stupid and we de-nested. The route generation looked something like this: site\_section\_unit\_text\_activity\_file\_path(params[:site\_id], params[:section\_id], params[:unit\_id], params[:text\_id], params[:activity\_id], params[:id]) Ridiculous. 🙂 –Jeremy On 8/20/07, AndyV [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > You may be having trouble generating routes like I did when I first > > > > On 8/20/07, Marc [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > ``` > > > owner.resources :dogs, > > > > > > ``` > > > > –[http://www.jeremymcanally.com/](http://www.jeremymcanally.com/) > > > > My free Ruby e-book:[http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/book/](http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/book/) > > > > My blogs:[http://www.mrneighborly.com/http://www.rubyinpractice.com/](http://www.mrneighborly.com/http://www.rubyinpractice.com/) > > > – [http://www.jeremymcanally.com/](http://www.jeremymcanally.com/) My free Ruby e-book: [http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/book/](http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/book/) My blogs: > **[Site not found · DreamHost](http://www.mrneighborly.com/)** > > The owner of this domain has not yet uploaded their website. [http://www.rubyinpractice.com/](http://www.rubyinpractice.com/) ---
**Author:** ![marc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@marc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marc)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multi-nested-resources/112517/4 "2007-08-20T22:44:22Z")
Hmm but I’m not trying to nest too deeply. It’s more like having two equal nests? An Owner can have a dog as well as a cat (let’s not get into like polymorphism for this case first =). How do you denote that on the routes? url path would be like: owner/1/dog/1 and owner/1/cat/1 On Aug 20, 11:47 pm, “Jeremy McAnally” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![marc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@marc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marc)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multi-nested-resources/112517/5 "2007-08-20T15:56:15Z")
You may be having trouble generating routes like I did when I first stated playing with it. 🙂 To generate a route to, say, a dog, you’ll to provide something like this: owner\_dog\_path(@owner\_id, @dog\_id) Then Rails builds the URL off of the two id’s to produce something like [http://yourapp.com/owners/1/dogs/2](http://yourapp.com/owners/1/dogs/2) or what have you. I suggest read the PDF mentioned here: [http://www.rubyinside.com/restful-rails-development-pdf-released-392.html](http://www.rubyinside.com/restful-rails-development-pdf-released-392.html) …and referring to this cheatsheet: > **[REST-cheatsheet.pdf](https://topfunky.com/clients/peepcode/REST-cheatsheet.pdf)** > > 78.73 KB …whenever you need it. –Jeremy On 8/20/07, Marc [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ``` > owner.resources :cats, > :controller => 'cats', > :singular => 'cat', > :name_prefix => 'owner_' > > ``` > > end > > Just having a bit of trouble with routes… thanks! > > > – [http://www.jeremymcanally.com/](http://www.jeremymcanally.com/) My free Ruby e-book: [http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/book/](http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/book/) My blogs: > **[Site not found · DreamHost](http://www.mrneighborly.com/)** > > The owner of this domain has not yet uploaded their website. [http://www.rubyinpractice.com/](http://www.rubyinpractice.com/) ---
**Author:** ![marc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@marc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marc)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multi-nested-resources/112517/6 "2007-08-20T22:54:23Z")
argh ignore what I have posted, I found out the error of my ways… I forgot to put the prefix when i specified like: cat\_path should have been owner\_cat\_path. doh. Thanks all =)