Stuff has_many my_stuff Then any individual Stuff will expose .my_stuff method. You will have to create the CRUD operations for the MyStuff, that will contain stuff_id field for the association.
On Jan 15, 8:10 am, Souschef <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm new to rails & am building out an application to learn from. From > a conceptual perspective, how would I go about working with a subset > of data? For example, say I have an application with basic CRUD > operations on "Stuff". I've implemented the restful_authentication > plugin and am now struggling with how would I deal with setting up > CRUD for "MyStuff" (i.e. Stuff associated with a particular user ID). > What's the best approach? Any good examples/tutorials out there? > > Following are thoughts I'm considering: > > - Recreate the controller & views for "Stuff", but just using the > subset of data associated with the user's ID. > - as a subset to this, I see the "Stuff" controller is "class > StuffController < ApplicationController". Do I want to set > up something like "class MyStuffController < Stuff > Controller". Is this possible? > > - I've read on various the web pages about filtering, but not sure I > understand it fully. Can this be used? > Really I'm just working with a subset of "Stuff", and I'd think I > should be able to re-use the controller, views, etc. > by just passing it a different data set, but then maybe this is a > naive perspective. > > - Is this an inheritance concept? > > Thanks in advance for your guidance!
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