Rboard can be found at http://gitpilot.co ----- Ryan Bigg Freelancer http://frozenplague.net
On 20/12/2008, at 11:40 AM, jasoo24 wrote: > > For my admin pages, I always use the edit action instead of show. It > cuts down on the amount of work and I find it more useful that way. > > Hey Ryan, do you have any live rboards up on the web? I'd love to see > it in action... > > On Dec 17, 7:22 pm, "Patrick Doyle" <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am curious what folks do with the #show action (and its >> associated view) >> in a RESTful application. >> >> How often is it used? >> >> It seems to me that, for the sorts of applications I can envision, it >> probably wouldn't be used much at all. Everything I might want to >> show can >> be displayed by the #index action. Is that true more or less often >> than >> not? >> >> If there isn't anything to be gained by a #show action, what do >> folks do (if >> anything) to disable it? >> >> I have seen a use for #show in the classic case of a blog, where >> the index >> page shows the titles of each of the entries in the blog, but the >> user must >> click on one of those titles to "show" the actual blog post, but >> that brings >> up a related (and nearly identical) question... >> >> I can see the same issue with the #new action for a nested route. >> Again in >> the classic blog application, the #show action for the post would >> probably >> include a form for adding a comment, thus eliminating the need for >> a #new >> action (and its view) . >> >> What do you folks with vastly more RoR experience than I do in these >> situations? Is there a best practice? Is there a common practice? >> >> --wpd > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
