Any help please...?
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Thanks,
CS
Carlos Santana wrote:
> I am almost done with my RESTful application design.
> Following are the nested resources:
> map.resources :topics do |topics|
> topics.resources :items do |items|
> items.resources :attachments
> end
> end
> A topic has a list of items and items may have attachments.
>
> When a user accesses particular topic, he/she should also see
> corresponding items and attachments. So a url topic_path(1), i.e.,
> 'topic/1' should also display related items and their attachments. This
> is not a problem while rendering page in a html/rhtml format. I am using
> _item and _attachment partials within topic/show.rhtml. How do I achieve
> this in case of xml? The usual 'format.xml {render :xml =>
> @topic.to_xml}' is of no use in this case.
>
> Another way to access items and attachments would be:
> 'topic/:id/items' and 'topic/:id/items/:id/attachments'.
> This is pretty easy and rendering documents in different formats is not
> a problem here. This also suggests 'Resource = Record' relationship. Any
> thoughts on this?
>
> One more thing I would like to add is downloading a topic in a zip file
> format. Isn't it just another formatted url 'format.zip { render :file
> => @topic.generate_archive }'?
>
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> Thanks,
> CS.
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