Re: [myexperiment-hackers] Route issue with "aliased" models

[Finn Bacall]

This is now done, and ready to go into trunk whenever, just let me know. 
I also discovered and fixed a bug that is present on the live site at 
the moment, wherein a stack error occurs if you try and "favourite" a file.

-Finn

On 02/12/11 10:34, Finn Bacall wrote:
> I've decided to rewrite some code in my datasets branch to take 
> advantage of Rails 2's ability to automatically infer routes from a 
> given object (for example 'link_to(@object.name, @object')).
>
> However, it can't figure out what to do with instances of Blob and 
> Network as, the resources described in the routes file are named 
> "Files" and "Groups" respectively.
>
> To solve this, rather than having: "resources :files, :controller => 
> :blobs..."
>  you can use: "resources :blobs, :as => :files..."
>
> which would maintain the same functionality/URL paths as the one 
> above, and Rails would know that its the route for the "Blob" model.
>
> This has the advantage of allowing things that deal with heterogeneous 
> sets of resources to be able to generate links to resources without 
> needing switch statements.
>
> The major issue is, all instances of "file_path(@file.id)" etc. would 
> have to be replaced with "blob_path(@file.id)". As far as I can tell, 
> there isn't a way to avoid this.
>
> I'd like to hear peoples' thoughts on this.
>
> -Finn


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Finn Bacall
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
http://www.myexperiment.org/