Best practices to handle routes for STI subclasses in rails

Question

My Rails views and controllers are littered with redirect_to, link_to, and form_for method calls. Sometimes link_to and <

Answer 1

Here is a safe clean way to have it work in forms and throughout your application that we use.

resources :districts
resources :district_counties, controller: 'districts', type: 'County'
resources :district_cities, controller: 'districts', type: 'City'

Then I have in my form. The added piece for this is the as: :district.

= form_for(@district, as: :district, html: { class: "form-horizontal",         role: "form" }) do |f|

Hope this helps.