# Multiple controllers links **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 8, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multiple-controllers-links/152876 "2008-11-08T20:57:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chandraruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@chandraruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chandraruby)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multiple-controllers-links/152876/1 "2008-11-08T20:57:32Z")
Hello experts, I’ve got two different models and controllers. Lets call them Author and Book respectively. Also Author has\_many :books, and Book belong\_to :author. with this setup I get urls looking like [http://localhost:3000/author/14/book/173](http://localhost:3000/author/14/book/173). Is there a way to get rid of the ‘book’ controller name from the url? I’d be more happy to see [http://localhost:3000/author/14/173](http://localhost:3000/author/14/173) instead. Or my design is completely wrong and I am missing something importing? I hope this can be accomplished with a routes, but not sure how. Please point me out to the right direction. Regards, Chandra ---
**Author:** ![chandraruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@chandraruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chandraruby)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multiple-controllers-links/152876/2 "2008-11-11T22:12:15Z")
you could probably just set up your own route in config/routes.rb for it, or maybe some of the configuration options for map.resources can do it: [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Resources.html#M000337](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Resources.html#M000337) On Nov 8, 1:55 pm, “chandra s.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)