form_for and scopes, rails 3

Question

I have a problem due to scopes and the form_for helper in rails 3. The routes - file looks like this:

scope \"(/:tab)\" do
  resources :article
end
         


        

Answer 1

In a very similar situation I defined the scope in routes like below:

scope :path => ":election_id", :as => "election" do 
  resources :questions
end

Now I have helpers like election_questions_path(@election)

In the forms I can use:

form_for [@election, @question] do |f|
  ...
end

In above examples @election is an instance of the Election model.

After integrating Friendly_id into this solution I got some pretty urls. For example "http://mydomain.com/elections-2012/questions/my-question"