Hi,
This may seem a silly question, but I didn't find an elegant solution
to manage a user's tag collection. Perhaps I'm missing something, I'd
like to know if there is a better way to handle it are.
The configuration is pretty standard stuff:
user.rb:
has_many :user_tags, :dependent => :destroy
has_many :tags, :through => :user_tags
tag.rb:
has_many :user_tags, :dependent => :destroy
has_many :users, :through => :user_tags
user_tag.rb:
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :tag
(tags also have many-to-many associations w/ other resources).
I would like users to have a separate page to manage their tags.
I have thought about some solutions:
* Manage the tags using different templates for user actions. Problem:
doesn't scale, will add complex logic to controllers.
* Extend the users resource with two new member actions. Problem:
doesn't scale, users will have many more collections.
* Create a controller for user_tags, nest the resource under users.
This is what I'm using now. It doesn't feel right to manipulate the
user_tags table directly, Rails already has logic for things like:
user.tags << Tag.find_or_create_by_name("foo")
user.tags.delete(Tag.find(params[:id]))
* Create a non-restful controller, maybe to manage all users'
collections, keeping things in one place. Add routes manually. In
particular, leverage the construct:
accepts_nested_attributes_for :tags, ...
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
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Adriano
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