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You're missing a do in there, so it's defining routes like /projects/newjs It should be

resources :projects do
  resources :notes, :photos do
    collection do
      get 'yourproject', 'newjs'
    end
  end
end

Ben Taitelbaum 2010-10-26 02:41:55

btw, `rake routes` is quite helpful for debugging

Ben Taitelbaum 2010-10-26 02:43:44

You are seriously my hero.

AnApprentice 2010-10-26 03:01:57

Actually wait! That didn't work right... close though... that ended up making a newjs_project_notes_path and a newjs_project_photos_path... When it should have made just "newjs_project_note_path" notice it pluraized notes and it should just be note?

AnApprentice 2010-10-26 03:07:00

I think `newjs_project_notes_path` is correct, because we've said it's a collection, so we would expect several notes. Similarly, the notes index is `project_notes`, not `project_note` (`project_note` is reserved for getting a specific note by id)

Ben Taitelbaum 2010-10-26 03:12:50

@Ben, but having a newjs_photos makes no sense, right? Maybe there is a different way in Rails 3 to setup the path newjs_project_note_path?

AnApprentice 2010-10-26 03:17:27

newjs_photos doesn't make sense because photos is a nested resource, but newjs_project_photos makes sense -- I would assume there are several photos that I can access at /projects/:project_id/photos/newjs(:.format)

Ben Taitelbaum 2010-10-26 03:36:29

If you wanted just a single photo labeled with newjs, you could either us a matcher, or have a db migration create a photo with id 'newjs'

Ben Taitelbaum 2010-10-26 03:37:05

It really comes down to what you're trying to model. When you have nested resources and then a collection, you're saying that /projects/:project_id/notes/newjs is a special list of notes for any project. If you're trying to use it for a different purpose, then it's possible a simple matcher may work better: ` match '/projects/:project_id/notes/newjs.(:format)' => 'controller#action', :as => :newjs_project_note`

Ben Taitelbaum 2010-10-26 03:51:18

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