Comments on: Hierarchical Resources in Rails

By: Peter Williams

Peter Williams — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:54:32 +0000

Arik, it is possible but Rails really encourages a more flat URI space. I think this it probably a better approach in general, though some hierarchicalness can be useful in certain situations.

By: Arik

Arik — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:07:32 +0000

What about something like this in rails. You have a “Page” model. Every page can belong to another page creating a parent child relationship. For example:

http://example.com/parent-page/child-page/child-child-page

So on so forth… Is this possible in a rails app? if so whats the best approach?

By: John Nunemaker

John Nunemaker — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:05:17 +0000

I use something along the lines of this: http://revolutiononrails.blogspot.com/2007/05/drying-up-polymorphic-controllers.html

Allows for:
http://example.com/user/{user_id}/addresses
http://example.com/user/{user_id}/addresses/{address_id}
etc, etc, etc.

By: Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff

Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:15:34 +0000

Hierarchical Resources in Rails...

Peter Williams: Consider a situation where you have a type of resource which always belongs to a resource of another type. How do you model the URI space using Rails?......