Nested named routes in rails?

Question

Lets say you have a two models with blog posts and comments set up like this:

class post 
has_many :comments

and the routing was set up pretty much the same way:

map.resources :posts, :has_many => :comments

When I go to make a new comment it shows up as localhost::3000/postname/comments/new

What should you do in order to make the url read something like: localhost::3000/postname/shoutout ?

The reason I want to do this is because this particular page will have more than just a new comment form on it.

I have no trouble naming routes but I'm having trouble figuring out what to do with a nested one.

Answer 1

The routes have nothing to do with the forms that are on the page, I'm not sure what the problem is?

If you want to have /postname/shoutout go to to CommentsController#new you'll need to map the route manually:

map.connect '/:post_id/shoutout', :controller => 'comments', :action => 'new'

Answer 2

map.resources :posts, :has_many => :comments, :collection => {:shoutout => :get}

Key feature is :collection, which points of pairs: 'name' => 'method', and you need to implement this name in controller (and views)