Nested routes vs hidden_field

Ruby on Rails
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Hi all,

I’m having a problem wrangling nested routes and I’m not entirely sure how to use them in this particular scenario. The relationship I’m describing is that every User attaches a Proof to each PCI Requirement. I have a feeling that nesting Proof inside Requirement is the proper way to go. However, by going that route, we have to implement a hidden_field for user_id. But I feel using a hidden_field is wrong also. Then I thought, ok, what about nesting all the routes to do something like form_for [@user, @proof, @requirement] but Rails guides says that’s a no no.

I’m not entirely sure of the best pattern to use for this. I’d really appreciate some advice!

Here’s the PR where I’m having issues wrangling this
https://github.com/akshatpradhan/compliance_chimp/pull/20/files

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I finally figured out why things were going wrong. Its important to understand the usage of requirements#index.

I was going down the wrong path until this sent me in the right direction.
https://github.com/akshatpradhan/compliance_chimp/pull/30/files

This pattern is actually in the Learn repo as purchasables_controller.rb in the create action with current_user

YAAR!