Rails - Dec 2006 - rails way of selecting a partial with clean url?

hi,

in one of my views, i have some links, and depending on the value i set
in a variable, that chooses what partial i display.

for example in my view

link to "get all", :action view, :id => something1, :switchOn =>
''maincategory''

link to "get all", :action view, :id => something2, :switchOn =>
''subcategory''


controller

def view
   if params[:switchOn] == ''maincategory''
        Bbq.find(:all)
        @switchOn = ''main''
   end
   if params[:switchOn] == ''subcategory''
        Bbq.find(:all, :condtion .. something)
        @switchOn = ''sub''
   end
end


view.rhtml
   if @switchOn == ''main''
      render partial ''viewmain''
   end
   if @switchOn == ''sub''
      render partial ''viewsub''
   end


doing this way, my url is kind of ugly. do i just rewrite or customize
my routes.rb?


thanks

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One way I could think of is, you can render partials in the controller
itself.

def view
   if params[:switchOn] == ''maincategory''
        Bbq.find(:all)
        @switchOn = ''main''
         render :partial => ''viewmain''
   end
   if params[:switchOn] == ''subcategory''
        Bbq.find(:all, :condtion .. something)
        @switchOn = ''sub''
       render :partial => ''viewsub''
   end
end


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i can still do it that way, but i still get a funky url..

i wonder if there is a way to know what action triggered the call to 
view from the link_to other than passing a param.





Kiran Soumya wrote:
> One way I could think of is, you can render partials in the controller
> itself.
> 
> def view
>    if params[:switchOn] == ''maincategory''
>         Bbq.find(:all)
>         @switchOn = ''main''
>          render :partial => ''viewmain''
>    end
>    if params[:switchOn] == ''subcategory''
>         Bbq.find(:all, :condtion .. something)
>         @switchOn = ''sub''
>        render :partial => ''viewsub''
>    end
> end

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> link to "get all", :action view, :id => something1, :switchOn
=>
> ''maincategory''
> 
> link to "get all", :action view, :id => something2, :switchOn
=>
> ''subcategory''
if your call looks like:

<%= link_to "get_all", :url => { :action => :view, :id =>
foo, :switchOn
=> ''subcategory'' } %>

then the "switchOn" param will be encoded into the URL, whereas if you
pull the param out, like:

<%= link_to "get_all", :url => { :action => :view}, :id =>
foo,
:switchOn => ''subcategory''  %>

then the url should look more like

get_all/actionview?id=1;switchOn=subcategory

which is a little nicer to read I think.

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