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map.connect ’songs’, :controller => ’songs’, :action => ‘list’

Then create the ‘list’ action in songs_controller.rb:

def list
@songs = Song.find(:all)
end

And the corresponding view - app/views/songs/list.rhtml

Also, make sure the ‘capture_artist’ filter method doesn’t complain when an artist_id is not present. Something like this should do the job:

def capture_artist
@artist = Artist.find(params[:artist_id]) unless params[:artist_id].nil?
end

I know that /artists/1/songs works, but would /songs work too? I have not been able to get this running, but it seems I should be able to.

As far as I can tell, once nested the ‘parent’ resource must always be present in the url. If you have figured out a way around this, I sure would love to know!