Showing Chirps by Author

What we have so far is pretty neat, but we could make it act a little more like Twitter.

What might the routes for showing chirps by author look like? Look at Twitter's routes and discuss.

Rails has a neat way for us to make a set of routes with prefixes in front. This would be a quick way for us to make a set of routes about one author's chirps.

In our config/routes.rb, let's put the following after resources :chirps:

  scope ':author', as: 'author' do
    resources :chirps
  end

If we look at the routes for this using rake routes in our commandline, we will get:

The ones starting with :author are the ones we just made! Let's skip creating, updating, and destroying chirps by adding , except: ['create', 'update', 'destroy'] to what we just coded like so:

Now, if we rake routes again, we get:

As with :id before, we will now get the :author value in our controllers through the route. If we go to http://localhost:3000/Big Bird/chirps right now, we still all chirps.

That's because our actions don't know to do anything different yet with the author.

We can line up our author routes as before:

Let's try listing all chirps by one author!