[LRUG] map.resources and Recipe for consolidating controllers

[Jason Cale]

On 5 Nov 2008, at 16:00, Simon Sebright wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a bit of a lurker, and have recently taken up Rails again.  I am  
> experimenting with a standard controller for a simple model and have  
> used the new RESTful stuff, and therefore have map.resources  
> <mymodel> in the routes.rb file.
>
> This gives rise to new, edit, update and create as standard actions  
> for this model.
>
> Then I read in Rails Recipes an item to consolidate these into one  
> functio of the controller.  Only it doesn't quite work.  The basics  
> are to do two checks:
>
> @it = MyModel.find_by_id( params[:id] ) ¦¦ MyModel.new
>
> if request.post?
>     ... including save with params[:it]
> end
>
> With the update action, post? is not true.  Viewing the source, the  
> form_for (@it) is generating /my_models as the destination and  
> "post" as the method in the form html element.  Checking the server  
> console output, I see it gets a URL with "PUT" as the HTTP verb.
>
> Anyone else seen that, or am I missing something daft?
>
> TIA,
> Simon
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On 5 Nov 2008, at 16:07, James Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Neat though it is, that recipe isn't really appropriate to the
> new-style map.resources stuff, as it does all the routing for you and
> expects new, edit, update, and create actions to be implemented. I
> wouldn't really recommend fighting against that... I'd stick with
> separate actions.
>
> I have an old 1.2 app which uses that recipe all over the place, and
> it's going to be a right pain to change to a resource-based approach.
>
> cheers,
> James
> _______________________________________________

Hey,

ActionController these days has a request.put? which would equate to  
true for your update command .. but as James mentioned it might not be  
best way to go these days ..

I often use Hampton Catlin's make_resourceful to abstract my  
controllers, and I think it works splendidly.

http://github.com/hcatlin/make_resourceful/tree/master

It's nice and easy to extend for your edge cases ..

Cheers,
Jase.
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