Give, Nested Resourced, Books > Authors… How to Link to the Author SHOW page

Question

Hello,

I have the following rails 3 nested models:

resources :books do
  resources :authors
end

I now have a view here: /books/131/authors/ And I want to each record to link to something like: /books/131/authors/3333

<% @authors.each do |author| %>
   <%= link_to 'author.name', book_author_path(@book, @author) %>
<% end %>

but that error's with: No route matches {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"authors"}

I also tried:

<%= link_to 'author.name', [@book, author] %>

Problem is the code keeps linking to /authors/3333, not /books/131/authors/3333

Ideas? thanks!

Answer 1

book needs to be defined in the author controller for def index

<%= link_to "title", book_author_path(@book, author) %>