Rails routing without resource name

Question

My rails app has a Section model and a Page model. A section has many pages.

# section.rb
class Section < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :pages 
end

# page.rb
class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :section 
end

Assuming I have a Section with slug 'about', and that section has three pages with slugs 'intro', 'people', 'history,' a url with typical routing might look something like this:

http://example.com/sections/about/pages/intro
http://example.com/sections/about/pages/people
http://example.com/sections/about/pages/history

What is the best way to set up my routes so that I can use these urls:

http://example.com/about/intro
http://example.com/about/people
http://example.com/about/history

Answer 1

In order to remove "sections" and "pages" from all routes for both sections and pages, you could use:

resources :sections, path: '' do
  resources :pages, path: ''
end

Important: be sure to put this to the bottom of your routes page. For instance, it you have an example controller, and say your routes.rb appeared as follows:

resources :sections, path: '' do
  resources :pages, path: ''
end
resources :examples
root 'home#index'

With the above setup, going to http://example.com/examples would send you to the "examples" section, rather than than examples#index, and going to http://example.com/ would send you to sections#index rather than home#index. So, the above configuration should look like this:

resources :examples
root 'home#index'
resources :sections, path: '' do
  resources :pages, path: ''
end