Rails - Mar 2005 - Accessing model''s not associated with the current model of a controller.

Hello,

I have a strange setup where I need to access a model
from within a controller and the model has no
association with the controller.  That probably does
not make any sense.  However look at this:
http://andrewc.mdns.org/print.pdf

I need to access GenreList from with the controllers
for Movie and Music.  GenreList is only used to access
the appropriate list of genre''s for a given ArtForm
(such as moveis and music).  I''ve not been succesful
in accessing GenreList.  Is this possible?  Given my
crappy diagram, do you see a better way?

I appreciate your time.

Thank you,

Andrew M. Campbell

On 12/03/2005, at 1:14 PM, Andrew M. Campbell wrote:
> I have a strange setup where I need to access a model
> from within a controller and the model has no
> association with the controller.
It''s not at all unusual to access other model objects from your 
controller.

You''ll just need to add a:
require_dependency ''othermodel''

- tim lucas

> You''ll just need to add a:
> require_dependency ''othermodel''
Cool, I appreciate the response.

Thank you, 
Andrew M. Campbell

Tim Lucas wrote:
> On 12/03/2005, at 1:14 PM, Andrew M. Campbell wrote:
> 
>> I have a strange setup where I need to access a model
>> from within a controller and the model has no
>> association with the controller.
> 
> 
> It''s not at all unusual to access other model objects from your
controller.
> 
> You''ll just need to add a:
> require_dependency ''othermodel''
> 
you can also use the model dependancy which is the preferred way 
according to the docs, see ActionController::Dependencies::ClassMethods 
in the api