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Nested resources segments misplacement

I'm trying to implement basic social network features to allow users to add, delete friends, accept and decline friedship requests.

my user resource looks like this:

resources :users
    resources :friends, :controller => :relations
end

which generates this route user_friend DELETE /users/:user_id/friends/:id

But the problem is when I access /users/1, the generated link to the delete_user_friend_path looks like this: http://localhost:3000/users/5/friends/1

Solution

  • You need to pass the user into the helper:

    delete_user_friend_path(@user, @friend)

    It seems that you were doing:

    delete_user_friend_path(@friend)

    Which will fill in the :user_id parameter, and assume you want the same :id parameter as the page you are currently on.