Routing URL REST or not REST

Rails
1

my question is maybe silly… but it’s already July 4th … and I am
tired…

until now I have been using in my tests the following routes
(simplified version)

map.resources :academies do |academies|
academies.resources :ecourses
academies.resources :instructors
academies.resources :trainees
end

so I get the URL type : /academies/1/libraries from
academy_libraries_path(current_user.academy)

the current_user being defined , and he is always logged into one
academy when working ( current_user.academy)

I wonder is it possible to replace academy_id in the URL with a
string ‘CURRENT’ ? and have :

/academies/CURRENT/libraries (then nobody could hack the academy)

or is it better to keep the REST URL type and perform a security check
(permit ) in the controller ??

thanks

2

You may also want to look at the :shallow option to map.resources - it
does pretty much what you’re looking for.

–Matt J.