Rails Routes :shallow => true

Question

Wondering why my /articles route is not coming up when I apply :shallow => true?

routes.rb

resources :users, :shallow => true do
  resources :articles
end

Also tried this:

resources :users do
  resources :articles, :shallow => true
end

Visiting /articles won't show me all articles from any user as expected, but I can still visit /articles/:id just fine. Is this expected behavior?

Answer 1

The shallow: true option does not provide an index resource according to the docs. Therefore, you will not be able to access just /articles. So yes, this is the expected behavior.