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When I order my resources like below, /websitename works but /username doesn't.

resources :websites, :path => '', :only => [:create, :show] do
    resources :pages, :only => [:create, :show, :edit]
end

resources :users, :path => '', :only => [:create, :show, :index]

When I reverse the order like below, /username works but /websitename doesn't.

resources :users, :path => '', :only => [:create, :show, :index]

resources :websites, :path => '', :only => [:create, :show] do
    resources :pages, :only => [:create, :show, :edit]
end

It's like one is cancelling the other out or something. Is there some way around this? Some way to encapsulate them or something? I've no idea what I'm doing...

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You can only have one top level resource with no :path in practice. It will always match so nothing after will.

With command line - you can look at rake routes to see the actual url patterns each route is expecting and the precedence order.

And this makes sense, right? You wouldn't know if /georgia was a person or a place.

If your website routes have something special about them (like they all start with 'site') then you could do something like this.

resources :websites, :path => '', constraints: { id: /site+/ }

Put the more restrictive routes first in the routes file.

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Hmmm...I see, makes sense I guess yeah. I guess I gotta think now which I want to be TL and which to hide behind the controller name :/ – colmtuite Dec 9 at 0:29

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