# Seeking best practise advise

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-best-practise-advise/181122>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 5, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-best-practise-advise/181122 "2010-01-05T22:20:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@johnny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnny)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-best-practise-advise/181122/1 "2010-01-05T22:20:30Z")

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I am doing this app, account - project - category orientated. Category  
can belong to an account (url: [account.example.com/categories](http://account.example.com/categories)) or  
specific to a project (url: [account.example.com/projects/1/](http://account.example.com/projects/1/)  
categories), my question is:

1. is this url structure the proper way to do it?
2. inside the category controller, to determine whether the category  
belong to an account or a project, i use “if param[‘project\_id’]”,  
again is this the proper way to do it?

Appreciate any help,

Regards,

johnny

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**Author:** ![johnny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@johnny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnny)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-best-practise-advise/181122/2 "2010-01-05T22:24:36Z")

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