Hi Mislav, Excellent! Just what I needed. Thanks! I couldn't find it in my Rails 2.0.2 installation. I need the "Simply Helpful" plugin, right?
Thanks, Adi On Jan 20, 3:10 pm, "Mislav Marohnić" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe this is by design. > > When you say link_to(text, record), a polymorphic url is constructed > depending on the model. But when you say edit_person_path, you are > explicitly stating that you are dealing with Person records and that no > polymorphism should take place. > > I understand that when using STI you have a need for a polymorphic helper, > but I don't think changing the behavior of named routes (explicit or > automatically generated) is a solution - it would just be the source of more > confusion for others. > > Your cup of tea would be the edit_polymorphic_path helper, as in this > example I just put up:http://pastie.org/141162 > > - Mislav > > On Jan 20, 2008 1:32 PM, adish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > With a simple STI Employee < Person, I can write in the Person > > view.rhtml.erb : > > > ... > > link_to 'Show', person > > ... > > > and the correct controller will be call depending on the actual > > (concrete) type of the record. > > I think this is because link_to() uses polymorphic_url() internally. > > > However, the restful helpers, such as edit_person_path() fail to > > choose the correct controller and always route to the Person > > controller. This seems inconsistent and confusing. > > > How can I reroute edit_person_path() to take the polymorphic type into > > account, and route to the correct controller? > > > Is this by design or a bug? > > > I hope I made myself clear. > > Thanks, > > Adi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
