Thanks Wally. Think this could work...
On Dec 16, 6:01 pm, Wally Valters <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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