I guess at this point, all suggestions made so far are valid. I don't think there is a single "right way" to doing this. Both approaches will work.
Either, I provide an "if condition", and based on that, render a template. Or, create a list method and view. I guess it just comes down to personal preference? On Oct 12, 3:47 am, Christian Fazzini <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks all for the feedback. Very informative replies. At current I do > have it as a nested route as specified by Erol. > > Bill has also indicated a very interesting fact. Being that index > should display ALL records, while list can be used for more specific > requests (i.e. to filter out results). I'll definitely give this a > shot. Which I believe is also a RESTful approach > > On Oct 12, 3:30 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Oct 11, 11:45 am, Erol Fornoles <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I prefer this approach: > > > > Have the following routes setup: > > > > map.resources :artists do |artists| > > > artists.resources :paintings > > > end > > > map.resources :paintings > > [...] > > > If an Artist is specified, via the URL /artists/1/paintings, it will > > > load all Paintings from the specified Artist and render the view named > > > 'index_by_artist'. > > > If no Artist is given, using just the URL /paintings, it will load all > > > Paintings and use the default view 'index'. > > > This is certainly how I would do it. You've got a classic nested- > > resources situation here. > > > Best, > > -- > > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > > [email protected] > > -- 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.
