If you name the route you would... like: map.music ':section/:subsection/:id', :controller =>music', :action => 'show'
then you could use music_url (:action=>'whatever', :section=>'section', :subsection=>'subsection', :id=>1) On Dec 16, 3:22 am, coxy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a main model Article, which is subclassed by several others > like so: > > --- > class Music < Article > class RecordReview < Music; end > class Interview < Music; end > end > class Film < Article > class Review < Film; end > class Interview < Film; end > end > ...etc > --- > > Doing it this way I can simply call Music.all, or > Music::RecordReview.all etc to find relevant articles. For simplicity > I've decided to use only one controller ArticlesController. My URL > schema is like this: > > --- > '/music' > '/music/record_reviews' > '/music/record_reviews/1' > '/music/record_reviews/new' > '/music/record_reviews/1/edit' > '/film' > '/film/reviews' > ...etc > --- > > So - my question is - does anybody know a clean way to define this in > routes.rb, bearing in mind that all requests need to be passed to the > ArticlesController, which then needs to determine which type of > article we're currently requesting. > > Right now i'm just doing something like this: > > --- > map.connect ':section/:subsection/:id', :controller => > 'articles', :action => 'show' > ..etc > --- > > and then I use a before_filter to determine the type from the :section > and :subsection params - which works - but I then don't get any of the > url/path helpers generated doing a map.resources so things are getting > a bit messy. > > Thanks in advance --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
