Rails 4 [Best practices] Nested resources and shallow: true

Question

The following post is based on Rails 4.

I am currently looking for a best-practice about the multiple nested resources (more than 1), and the option shallow: true.

Answer 1

From this answer it seems shallow routes somewhat defy the convention of Rails, IMO.

I would think you wouldn't need the explicit path helper for a show route. The link_to helper should be able to infer it from the object's to_param method.

#your helper becomes 
link_to "show", collection

If you use the helper your way as you have above you probably need to pass the nested ID of the parent resource to the helper too.

link_to "show", collection_path([project, collection])