REST route not working

Rails
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I have a nested route that doesn’t want to work for me.

In my routes.rb I have:
/////////////
map.resources :orders, :collection => { :archived => :get, :search =>
:post } do |orders|
orders.resources :shipments, :collection => { :track => :get }
orders.resources :addressbooks, :name_prefix => “order_”
end
/////////////

The problem is, I’m trying to access the track route using:
track_shipment_path(order_id, id)
which would translate to:
/orders/33333/shipments/111;track
but it’s saying undefined method `track_shipment_path’

I’ve accessed the :archived route this way, just can’t understand why
the track route doesn’t work.

Just wondering what I’m doing wrong.

Thanks,

Dave

2

Hey,

you’ve got ‘track’ defined on the shipments collection so it would be:

track_shipments_path(order_id)

But seeing as the URL you quoted is for a shipments member (/orders/
333/shipments/111;track), you probably want this:

orders.resources :shipments, :member => {:track => :get}

in which case, the helper would be (as you expected)
track_shipment_path(order_id, id)

HTH,
Trevor

3

Trevor S. wrote:

But seeing as the URL you quoted is for a shipments member (/orders/
333/shipments/111;track), you probably want this:

orders.resources :shipments, :member => {:track => :get}

in which case, the helper would be (as you expected)
track_shipment_path(order_id, id)

HTH,
Trevor

Hi Trevor,

That was exactly what I needed! Thanks.

I’m having a hard time understanding the difference
between a collection and a member. Will figure it out
someday.

Thanks again for your help!

Dave

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David C. wrote:

I’m having a hard time understanding the difference
between a collection and a member. Will figure it out
someday.

And that day is the day. I finally read the part of the peepcode rest
cheatsheet that has collections & members on there.

Learn something new everyday.