Question

I have a site listing many jobs, but I also want each account to be able to access its jobs in one place. Thus, I am using these routes:

map.resources :jobs
map.resource :account, :has_many => :jobs

This gets me URLs like localhost/jobs/ and localhost/account/jobs. However, both seem to render JobsController::index. How can I either make a conditional in the index action (how do I access whether account/jobs or just jobs was specified in the URL?) or change the account route to render a different action? What s the proper way to do this?

Answer 1

You can use a block when creating your routes, and then pass a :controller parameter, like so

map.resource :account do |account|
  # If you have a special controller  AccountJobsController 
  account.resources :jobs, :controller => "account_jobs"
end

It may be cleaner for you to put your controllers into a directory structure, and then you can reference them in a nested way. For example:

map.resource :account do |account|
  account.resources :jobs, :controller => "accounts/jobs"
end

If you use the above snippet, you should then create a controller in app/controllers/accounts/jobs_controller.rb, which is defined like so:

class Account::JobsController < ApplicationController
  ##
  ## etc.
  ##
end

You can always use rake routes to check which routes have been generated and which controllers they ll use.

Answer 2

Adding a requirement to the resource definition allows you to pass extra parameters

map.resources :jobs
map.resource :account, :has_many => :jobs, :requirements => {:account => true}

Then params[:account] will be set if the routing url was http://www.mysite.tld/account/jobs and unset if it it was http://www.mysite.tld/jobs

As with all other restful routing the action depends on the context.

GET requests without an id route to index.
GET requests with an id route to show
POST requests route to create
PUT requests route to update
DELETE requests route to destroy.

Answer 3

If you run "rake routes" you should see something like this

account_jobs  GET    /accounts/:account_id/jobs/:job_id    {:controller =>  jobs , :action =>  index }

This means when your action is called via the /account/jobs route you should have an :account_id parameter. You can then do your logic switch based on the existence of this param:

if params[:account_id].nil?
   ...
else
   ...
end

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