rails custom controller with nested resources: routes.rb

Question

I have a User controller and related views for index,update, etc. The project specifications changed, and now we have a custom Dashboard controller and related index page, accessed by localhost:3000/dashboard

match 'dashboard' => 'dashboard#index', as: 'dashboard'

The Dashboard index page will act similar to the (old) User index page, and so I am thinking I can simply re-use the User controller actions. How can I simply "nest" the User into Dashboard, to achieve routes like localhost:3000/dashboard/users/new or localhost:3000/dashboard/users/1/edit? Note that the Dashboard controller does not have an associated model, it is a custom one just to create a customized homepage depending on the person viewing the Rails app. It will have other functionality unrelated to Users.

I tried

match 'dashboard' => 'dashboard#index', as: 'dashboard' do
  resources :users do

    member do
     #more custom actions
    end

    collection do
     #more custom actions
    end

 end


end

Robin · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-28 20:46:14Z

1

A namespace should do it:

namespace :dashboard do
    root to: "dashboard#index"

    resources :users do
    end
end

The route for the dashboard index should be dashboard_root_path.

app
    controllers
         dashboard
             dashboard_controller.rb
             users_controller.rb

answered Aug 28, 2012 at 20:46

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2 Comments

RailsDFW Over a year ago

I followed your suggestion, and re-arranged the location of the controllers and view (views/dashboard/user/*). The issue is that rails is complaining that users_path is undefined for #<#<Class:0x0000012afccdf0>:0x0000012af97cb8>. This happens when I try to use the form to create a new user. The offending line is <%= simple_form_for(@user) do |f| %>

Robin Over a year ago

views/dashboard/user/* probably a typo, but user should be plural. You need to change your form to simple_form_for([:dashboard, @user]).

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