Ruby on Rails Friday, December 2, 2011

I have an application, built with Rails 3.1.3, that has products and categories. The categories are related to other categories, so a category can be a parent or a child category. The products are then related to a child category.

Now, I'm thinking about how I should define the routes. Is it a good idea to somehow nest the categories and products resources? Ideally, I would like URLs like this:
    
    example.com/parent/child/product-1234
    
    like this:
    example.com/clothes/underwear/some-socks-1234

    or maybe like this to keep it restful?
    example.com/p/clothes/c/underwear/....

But maybe that's a bit messy to achieve with the routes? I would have to nest the category with itself I guess?

Any ideas on how to achieve something like this?


Do I create the category routes like this:

    resources :categories, :as => "parent" do
        resources :categories, :as => "child"
    end

or similar?
It's not that important to have the product nested inside the categories. Maybe it will just make it hard to manage...

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