rubyonrailsin

Hi,

I have a small blog application, and I would like to shorten its routes.
Here they are:

Blog::Application.routes.draw do
 resources :categories do
   resources :articles do
     resources :comments
   end
end

A rake routes command produce the following lines:

                             GET
/categories/:category_id/articles/:article_id/comments(.:format)
{:controller=>"comments", :action=>"index"}
   category_article_comments POST
/categories/:category_id/articles/:article_id/comments(.:format)
{:controller=>"comments", :action=>"create"}
 new_category_article_comment GET
/categories/:category_id/articles/:article_id/comments/new(.:format)
{:controller=>"comments", :action=>"new"}
                             GET
/categories/:category_id/articles/:article_id/comments/:id(.:format)
{:controller=>"comments", :action=>"show"}
                             PUT
/categories/:category_id/articles/:article_id/comments/:id(.:format)
{:controller=>"comments", :action=>"update"}
    category_article_comment DELETE
/categories/:category_id/articles/:article_id/comments/:id(.:format)
{:controller=>"comments", :action=>"destroy"}
edit_category_article_comment GET
/categories/:category_id/articles/:article_id/comments/:id/edit(.:format)
{:controller=>"comments", :action=>"edit"}
                             GET
/categories/:category_id/articles(.:format)
{:controller=>"articles", :action=>"index"}
           category_articles POST
/categories/:category_id/articles(.:format)
{:controller=>"articles", :action=>"create"}
        new_category_article GET
/categories/:category_id/articles/new(.:format)
{:controller=>"articles", :action=>"new"}
                             GET
/categories/:category_id/articles/:id(.:format)
{:controller=>"articles", :action=>"show"}
                             PUT
/categories/:category_id/articles/:id(.:format)
{:controller=>"articles", :action=>"update"}
            category_article DELETE
/categories/:category_id/articles/:id(.:format)
{:controller=>"articles", :action=>"destroy"}
       edit_category_article GET
/categories/:category_id/articles/:id/edit(.:format)
{:controller=>"articles", :action=>"edit"}
                             GET    /categories(.:format)
{:controller=>"categories", :action=>"index"}
                  categories POST   /categories(.:format)
{:controller=>"categories", :action=>"create"}
                new_category GET    /categories/new(.:format)
{:controller=>"categories", :action=>"new"}
                             GET    /categories/:id(.:format)
{:controller=>"categories", :action=>"show"}
                             PUT    /categories/:id(.:format)
{:controller=>"categories", :action=>"update"}
                    category DELETE /categories/:id(.:format)
{:controller=>"categories", :action=>"destroy"}
               edit_category GET    /categories/:id/edit(.:format)
{:controller=>"categories", :action=>"edit"}

As can be seen, each resource is ordered in a tree. So I believe that,
it's could be interesting to simplify my routes such as for example:

/categories/                                               => /
/categories/:id                                            => /:id
/categories/:category_id/articles/                         =>
/:category_id/articles
/categories/:category_id/articles/:id                      =>
/:category_id/:id
/categories/:category_id/articles/:article_id/comments/    =>
/:category_id/:article_id/comments
/categories/:category_id/articles/:article_id/comments/:id =>
/:category_id/:article_id/:id

It's more DRY, is't it? :)

Does Rails 3 provides a easy way to do so, with an HTTP verbs mapping to
controller actions automatically?

Thanks anyone.
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