Hey,
comments inline:
On 28-Dec-06, at 9:34 AM, Rick Olson wrote:
On 12/20/06, Trevor Squires <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
in my current project I've got a couple of map.resources as such:
map.resources :quote_requests do |quote_request|
quote_request.resources :request_items
end
map.resources :quotes, :controller => 'quote_requests'
Or just call the controller QuotesController instead of
QuoteRequestsController. Is this really so bad? I'd think having the
shorter url and routes would be a plus.
Rick, you're absolutely right insofar as there's more than one way to
skin this cat.
However, your suggestion to use the controller as a way to make the
URL opaque will still leave the URL helpers as quote_path etc, which
is not what I want - I want them to remain as quote_request_path etc.
And taking my example, I've also got quote_responses with
response_items, and I want to have /responses/9/items/3 - which under
your scheme would leave me with a clash between request_items and
response_items URL helpers.
Of course, I could use name prefixes for my helpers and/or I can
manually build my named routes, leaving map.resources behind.
However, map.resources is currently tightly coupling the interface
(the URL elements) to the guts of my code and I want a more painless
way to exert control over that. With this one-line change to
resources.rb I can divorce the resource name in my code from the
resource name in the URL.
Adding this option to two map.resources calls in my routes.rb I can
change a url like:
/quotes/9/items/3
to
/anything/9/at_all/3
without *any* code changes (unless you had ActiveResource clients, in
which case you'd have to change the name of your param for the
resource entity in your controllers etc - a small change compared to
the current alternatives).
I'm not saying anything is going to 'flop' without being able to
easily make resource urls more opaque :-) but being able to do so has
eased my pain and I think that others may benefit.
Trev
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