Here's the commit notice from revision 1004: Sing, muse the joy of pdcawley as he puts the monstrosity article_url and all its spawn to his sure swift sword and casts the tiny pieces down, down, ye even unto the very depths of The Pit.
Bear witness as Content#full_html returns to the fray, trailing clouds of glory, renewing the vigour of old themes left withering in the TypoGarden. For, verily, I have returned the sensible API to its rightful place. (Oh, and if you must use them, article_url et al. will continue to work for the forseeable future, but I will insist on treating them like red headed stepchildren.) Which is, arguably, a little bit over the top, but I've been longing to get rid of article_url since the very moment we introduced it. The old 'content_object.body_html' was just so much neater. But, once we introduced a proper blog object, we had somewhere to hang the active controller, so that's what I did. The Blog class is now an around_filter called by the controller, so, for the duration of a request, Blog (and hence any of its instances) know what the controller is. And our content objects know what the blog is. So Content#full_html now looks roughly like this: def full_html html(blog.controller, :all) end (It raises a slightly more informative error if there's no active controller, of course). Also, an article (and eventually other content subclasses) can now tell you its url by asking the blog, which asks the controller. Once all the content types are asking the blog for their url we can start using the blog as a place to store url policy. Why is that useful you may ask? Well, I was chatting on IRC to someone who was converting a large wordpress blog and he was looking at writing the thick end of 1500 redirect rules because wordpress urls look like: http://someblogger.com/blog-entry But ours look like http://sometypoblogger.com/articles/2006/04/09/blog-entry So, instead of writing a generic route that catches all of his articles, he has to write a redirect for each one. But wouldn't it be cool if we could have a 'url_style' setting on the blog, so if you want wordpress style urls you get 'em, if you want dateless permalinks, you get those. The routing table would (obviously) have to handle all (most) cases, but all our generated links would respect the blog's link style. -- Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.bofh.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list Typo-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list