link_to when using STI --> undefined method `animal_path'

[tom]

hi,

im getting started with STI but having trouble with link_to

1)

Model Animal

including an type column

2) routes:

#resource :animal

 resources :tiger , :controller => 'animals', type: 'tigler'

 resources :lion , :controller => 'animals', type: 'lion'

3) index.html

link_to 'show', animal >>undefined method `animal_path'

>> what is the correct way without hacking through classes and rewriting url helpers etc?

thx

[Dave Aronson]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:57 AM, tom <toma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2) routes:
> #resource :animal
> resources :tiger , :controller => 'animals', type: 'tigler'
> resources :lion , :controller => 'animals', type: 'lion'
>
> 3) index.html
> link_to 'show', animal >>undefined method `animal_path'

animal_path won't work because you've commented out resource :animal
(which should be plural anyway, as should the others).

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[tom]

its just pseudo-code. 

but if i leave the base resource in there, then it give me an /animal/id route which i dont want. i want either /tiger/id or lion/id

thx

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[Dave Aronson]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:07 PM, tom <toma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> its just pseudo-code.
>
> but if i leave the base resource in there, then it give me an /animal/id
> route which i dont want. i want either /tiger/id or lion/id

Then you need to know whether your animal is a tiger or lion (or bear
of course), and call the appropriate path helper. That kind of
messiness is exactly what inheritance (and other forms of
polymorphism) are great at solving.

[tom]

correct. i am experimenting with polymorphic_path(resource) and eg polymorphic_url([blog, post]),  but so far im not getting the result i want. i am having separate files  and inherited models and also inherited controllers (those dont have eny defined actions yet)...but no go....

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