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This chapter covers
� Building a nested resource
� Declaring data associations between two
database tables
� Working with objects within an association
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Nested resources
With the project resource CRUD done, the next step is to set up the ability to create
tickets within the scope of a given project. The term for performing actions for
objects within the scope of another object is nesting. This chapter explores how to
set up nested routing for Ticket resources by creating a CRUD interface for them,
scoped underneath the projects resource that you just created.
5.1 Creating tickets
To add the functionality to create tickets underneath the projects, you first develop
the Cucumber features and then implement the code required to make them pass.
Nesting one resource under another involves additional routing, working with associations
in Active Record, and using more before_filters. Let’s get into this.
To create tickets for your application, you need an idea of what you’re going to
implement. You want to create tickets only for particular projects, so you need a