Rails - Jan 2007 - Where do i put classes that i want to use in Controller??

Hello,

Can someone please help me..

I would like to know where i should put classes that i need to use
within my controller?

And how are they accessible to the controller?

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James Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can someone please help me..
> 
> I would like to know where i should put classes that i need to use
> within my controller?
> 
> And how are they accessible to the controller?
If it is a controller class, I''d put it in your app/controllers 
directory.  Model classes in app/models, etc.

app/contollers/your_controller.rb

def YourController < ActiveConroller
  ModelClass.method()
end

app/models/model_class.rb

def ModelClass < ActiveRecord::Base
  def method
  end
end


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Elliott Blatt wrote:
> If it is a controller class, I''d put it in your app/controllers 
> directory.  Model classes in app/models, etc.
It is neither.. Its just an additional class that i need to create 
objects for use within my controller, any ideas??

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Hi --

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, James Smith wrote:
>
> Elliott Blatt wrote:
>
>> If it is a controller class, I''d put it in your
app/controllers
>> directory.  Model classes in app/models, etc.
>
> It is neither.. Its just an additional class that i need to create
> objects for use within my controller, any ideas??
It sounds like a candidate for a file in lib/ .


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> Its just an additional class that i need to create
> objects for use within my controller, any ideas??
If you create a class and put it in lib/, you''ll be able to access it 
from anywhere in your application - including controllers.

Just name the file after the class name i.e. MyClass should be in lib/
my_class.rb.  If you''re using 1.2, rails will include the file 
automatically.  If you''re still on an earlier version, you''ll
need to
add a require line in yourself in environment.rb (require
''my_class'').

Hope that helps,

Steve


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> Hope that helps,
Yes, thanks very much.

One last question, if thats OK? When my application starts i need to do 
some basic setup work. This just involves calling a method that creates 
some objects, that are stored in the @session, based on data retrieved 
from the database. Can you advise me as to where this method should be 
called from (just the index of the first controller??) and where this 
''setup'' method should be within my rails directory structure?

Thanks again

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>  where this
> ''setup'' method should be within my rails directory
structure?
What I would do is add a before_filter to your ApplicationController:

class ApplicationController < ActionController:Base
  before_filter :setup

  private
  def setup
     if !session[:my_variable]
        # get data and edit session
     end
  end
end

Just to note, you should use the ''session'' method to access
the
session data rather than the instance variable ''@session''. 
You should
also consider whether or not you really need to store objects in the 
session as it can cause issues.  It''s best to keep the session small 
if you can.

Hope that helps,

Steve


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