Rails REST API design

Question

i want to create a "messenger" and i have those models:

• Account
• Message
• Message channel

Account has many channels, Channel has many messages, message belongs to account(sender) Also - there is an access restrictions to control which users can read/write to channel Question is - how to create beautiful routes(and controller methods) to manage theese models..

Sorry for my bad english.(

Answer 1

You should use nested ressourcs! In config/routes.rb

ressources :accounts do
  ressources :message_channels do
    ressources :messages
  end
end

This will automaticly generate RESTfull URLs but you have to update all the views because of the changed _path methods. You can view the paths by calling rake routes .