Given a one to many relationship between a user managed with devise and a "thing", my goal is to draw restful routes like:
http://host/username
http://host/username/things
http://host/username/things/1
...
I am aware of nested resources in Rails routes, but I can't figure out how to apply it to a generic User model created and managed via devise.
You can use scope
for this:
scope ":username", :as => "user" do
resources :things
end
Combine this with to_param
on the user model:
def to_param
username
end
And you'll have routes such as /username/things
. Be careful though, the username shouldn't contain any dots, forward slashes or standard URI characters. You may want to chuck a parameterize
on the end of username
to make sure.
You can also use resource :user, path: ':id' do ... end
Also don't forget to define to_param
in your user modal & use User.find_by_username(params[:id])
in your controller.