#506 √ resolved
Drew Chandler

Problem with index action route on a resource with the same name in plural and singular forms

Reported by Drew Chandler | September 30th, 2008 @ 07:25 AM | in 0.9.8

I have a route for a resource like this:


Merb::Router.prepare do
  identify :id do
    resources :news
  end
end

I can generate the url for the show action just fine using:


url(:news, @news)

but the index route throws a Generation Error.


url(:news) # causes  Generation Error: Named route news could not be generated with {}

I am not sure if this is a bug or poor naming on my part(I could call the resource news_item instead). These routes were working under the old router.

Comments and changes to this ticket

  • Michael Klishin (antares)

    Michael Klishin (antares) September 30th, 2008 @ 07:16 PM

    • → Milestone changed from “” to “0.9.8”
    • → State changed from “new” to “open”
    • → Assigned user changed from “” to “Carl Lerche”
  • Carl Lerche

    Carl Lerche September 30th, 2008 @ 08:53 PM

    • → State changed from “open” to “resolved”

    There will be a problem with resources that have the same plural and singular names. The singular and plural have to be different in order to create separate entries in the route hash.

    I added an option :singular that lets you set the singular name to something specific for times when the inflector can't figure it out.

    
Merb::Router.prepare do
  resources :news, :singular => :news_item # ... or something
end

url(:news) # => /news
url(:news_item, 10) # => /news/10

    Hope this helps.

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