Rails - Jul 2005 - shared controllers in Rails

I was doing a lot of similar actions/views/methods on a bunch of
different tables. So I put them all in one controller at the end of
application.rb

Now the similar controllers just inherit from that one. Just tell the
shared-controller what Model to use.

EVEN MY VIEWS could be shared, if I could just let the model tell the
shared-view what form-bits to include. Kinda like Rails'' generator
does.

To do this I came up with the form "Nub" (one form entry) - which can
give the info unique to that form field.   An array of Nubs is created
in the model.

Anyway, I put the gist of it here, for the taking:

http://dereksivers.com/rails-shared-controller.html

Sorry there''s not more explanation.  Lots of work I''m excited
about,
and no time to stop and teach.   (Even putting that page together took
an hour, so I hope someone can use it!)

:-)

- Derek