# Nested Route Issue Rails 2.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nested-route-issue-rails-2-0/133393>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 31, 2008, 7:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nested-route-issue-rails-2-0/133393 "2008-03-31T07:51:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![cpaesleme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@cpaesleme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cpaesleme)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 7:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nested-route-issue-rails-2-0/133393/1 "2008-03-31T07:51:06Z")

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Hi guys, having an issue with a nested route mapping. Do you have any  
ideas?

Almost done with my app from a Rails book I’m studying, built a  
‘mobile’ subfolder to provide support for mobile devices. Here is the  
route:

map.resources :users,  
:controller =\> ‘mobile/users’,  
:path\_prefix =\> ‘/mobile’,  
:name\_prefix =\> ‘mobile\_’ do |users|  
users.resource :entries,  
:controller =\> ‘mobile/entries’,  
:name\_prefix =\>‘mobile\_’  
end

where a user has several blog entries.

The URL I’m trying to access here is

/mobile/users/1/entries

which according to ‘rake routes’ should give me the index method of  
the mobile/entries controller. However, the above URL ends up taking  
me to the UsersController instead, despite what rake routes is telling  
me. The result is that I end up with the “no action responded to 1”  
error.

If you’d like to have a look at the app, I’ve zipped it up and placed  
it in this address:

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You can also go into the actual site [tagtheplanet.net&nbsp;-&nbsp;tagtheplanet Resources and Information.](http://tagtheplanet.net/mobile/)  
and go to Blogs and click on the Admin link at the top to get the same  
error, or use the URL

> **[tagtheplanet.net - tagtheplanet Resources and Information.](http://tagtheplanet.net/mobile/users/1/entries)**
>
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**Author:** ![cpaesleme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@cpaesleme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cpaesleme)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 10:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nested-route-issue-rails-2-0/133393/2 "2008-03-31T10:33:31Z")

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Hi cpaesleme,  
Try changing “users.resource :entries” to “users.resources :entries”,  
then moving the whole map.resources :users block to a line in the  
routes.rb file, making sure it appears before the default config  
lines:  
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.:format’  
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’

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**Author:** ![cpaesleme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@cpaesleme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cpaesleme)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nested-route-issue-rails-2-0/133393/3 "2008-03-31T15:04:18Z")

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If you plan on supporting both mobile and ‘non-mobile’ browsers then  
you probably want to use namespace in routes:

map.namespace :mobile do |mobile|  
mobile.resources :users  
end

map.resources :users

This should give you a ‘default’ routing for ‘normal’ users (PCs) and  
a ‘mobile’ alternative. You’ll have to do the work of determining  
which one is appropriate for any given request. The advantage of  
using namespacing, though, is that it will automatically look in the /  
views/mobile/users folder for the view code.

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**Author:** ![cpaesleme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@cpaesleme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cpaesleme)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nested-route-issue-rails-2-0/133393/4 "2008-04-01T17:59:03Z")

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Hey guys,

Thanks for the suggestions. I implemented the namespace, which is  
cleaner and leads to less code, and it generates the correct routes  
and everything, but still mobile\_user\_entries\_url is redirecting to  
the users\_controller instead of the entries\_controller like rake  
routes indicates.

I’ll keep poking around the code, let me know if you think of anything  
else to try!

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**Author:** ![cpaesleme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@cpaesleme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cpaesleme)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nested-route-issue-rails-2-0/133393/5 "2008-04-02T17:40:10Z")

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After poking around for another 4 hours, I finally realized that I had  
the

map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.:format’  
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’

above the mobile lines, which was causing the app not to see the  
mobile routes correctly. How anticlimactic.

I moved them down to the bottom of the file and now everything works  
fine. Thanks for the namespace trick and for looking at my issue  
guys!