On 14 October 2010 13:46, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a general design question, and haven't written any code for this > feature yet. I'm setting up a control panel for a sort of team/content > management system. A new project needs a team to work on it. The project has > been saved, so we don't have to worry about that. But each member of the > team needs to have a role in relation to this project (they may have another > role on a different project). So I am thinking about using a > has_many_through relationship between projects and people using a Role > model. > > An admin comes to a new screen to set up the team for this project. She sees > a list of all available people in the system, and can check one or more of > them to be added to the team. In each chosen person's form row, she also > needs to pick a role for that person from a select or radio field. > > So my question is this: Which model needs to draw this interface? I am > thinking this is coming from the Project, which is iterating over a list of > Person.all and accepts_nested_attributes for Roles within each instance of > that list.
The first point is that it is not models that draw interfaces it is controllers via views. Note that there does not need to be a one to one relationship between models and controllers. Since you said that the admin sees a list of available people, perhaps it should be in the people controller. Perhaps you would be better off with an admin controller. It is impossible to say from here. I would advise going with whichever seems most logical to you. Make sure you write tests first and later if you decide it would be better in a different controller it is easy to move it. The tests will give you confidence that you have not messed anything up whilst refactoring. Colin -- 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.
