How to remove controller names from rails routes?

Question

I would like to trim down the routes on my application so that:

http://myapplication.com/users/peter/questions/how-do-i-create-urls

becomes...

Answer 1

Thanks to both @mark and @DanneManne for their help. With their input and a little more tweaking I got it all working. It's not exactly trivial but I'm not sure you could make it much shorter either:

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Final working code

# setup the basic resources while holding some back for creation below
resources :users, :except => [:show, :index, :new, :create], :path => '/' do
  resources :questions, :except => [:show]
end

# for clarity, pick out routes that would otherwise go 
# to root (such as new_user => '/new')
resources :users, :only => [:index, :new, :create]


# setup questions#show to give clean URLS
match ':user_id/:question_id', :as => :user_question, 
                               :via => :get,
                               :controller => :questions, 
                               :action => :show

# setup users#show method to give clean URLS
match ':user_id', :as => :user, 
                  :via => :get, 
                  :controller => :user, 
                  :action => :show

Rake Routes output

    user_questions GET    /:user_id/questions(.:format)          {:action=>"index", :controller=>"questions"}
                   POST   /:user_id/questions(.:format)          {:action=>"create", :controller=>"questions"}
 new_user_question GET    /:user_id/questions/new(.:format)      {:action=>"new", :controller=>"questions"}
edit_user_question GET    /:user_id/questions/:id/edit(.:format) {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"questions"}
     user_question PUT    /:user_id/questions/:id(.:format)      {:action=>"update", :controller=>"questions"}
                   DELETE /:user_id/questions/:id(.:format)      {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"questions"}
         edit_user GET    /:id/edit(.:format)                    {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"users"}
              user PUT    /:id(.:format)                         {:action=>"update", :controller=>"users"}
                   DELETE /:id(.:format)                         {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"users"}
             users GET    /users(.:format)                       {:action=>"index", :controller=>"users"}
                   POST   /users(.:format)                       {:action=>"create", :controller=>"users"}
          new_user GET    /users/new(.:format)                   {:action=>"new", :controller=>"users"}
     user_question GET    /:user_id/:question_id(.:format)       {:controller=>"questions", :action=>"show"}
              user GET    /:user_id(.:format)                    {:controller=>"user", :action=>"show"}