I'm kinda newbie in RoR yet and I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how should I implement this. I'm writing an application to store and display information about insects and their distribution. Currently I have almost all functionality implemented, except for a **very** important one: The application must be capable of "crawling" itself and generate a zip archive for download. Actually, crawling itself isn't accurate enough, since the views must be sightly different (e.g. don't provide functionality not available without Internet connection, indicate in the title that the page is an offline copy, etc).
The question is: Do you have any suggestions as to how I should implement this? One approach I had in mind (although I don't know how to program it), would be calling from the controller that triggers the archive generation, all the publicly accessible controllers and each of them providing a non-routable method which uses the offline templates. This method would be an index-like one except that it will repeatedly use the offline view for #show, rendering to string and storing in a stream. Another approach, let the zip generation controller access the views from all the resources and iterate over all model data, making a really centralized and big controller. And lastly, make all public controllers check for "/static/" to tell them to use the offline templates and then use some self crawling by iterating over all model data. (For some reason, trying to self-crawl didn't work for me in development even when using Thin which explicitly advertises ">> Maximum connections set to 1024" when it boots up. The problem would probably solve itself by using delayed job, though, haven't tested yet.) All the controllers dealing with resources were created with "rails g scaffold ...". In all the "solutions" above (except maybe in the third method) are missing a procedure to include all assets in the zip archive properly (i.e. enumerate them all and store them with the correct file name). I'll be extremely grateful for any suggestions about how should I tackle this problem! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/c3455891c6d04c8ce3ad554d67ce65bd%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
