Rails - Nov 2005 - Component accessibility

Hi!

I''ve experienced the components in Rails to be parts of an application
which need some logic to render (the action behind it) which can be
include from different locations in the application. To tie up with
the web-shop example of the "Agile development" book there
they''ve
used it to render the summary of the cart.

My problem with this is, that all the components are based on public
accessible actions and therefore I could get the partial HTML output
directly through the browser by knowing or guessing the URL of the
Controller/Action. Of course I could use Partials and Helper functions
for less complex tasks and in the majority of cases the component
accessibility also won''t influence the application behaviour. But in
my understanding this is just not very nice.

So is there anything in Rails which covers my concern I haven''t
discovered yet?

Thanks for all comments in advance!

regards,
Stefan

Is there anyone who knows how to get around this restriction?

I''d be interested in this as well.

regards,

Martin

On 11/3/05, Stefan Schuster
<st.schuster-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I''ve experienced the components in Rails to be parts of an
application
> which need some logic to render (the action behind it) which can be
> include from different locations in the application. To tie up with
> the web-shop example of the "Agile development" book there
they''ve
> used it to render the summary of the cart.
>
> My problem with this is, that all the components are based on public
> accessible actions and therefore I could get the partial HTML output
> directly through the browser by knowing or guessing the URL of the
> Controller/Action. Of course I could use Partials and Helper functions
> for less complex tasks and in the majority of cases the component
> accessibility also won''t influence the application behaviour. But
in
> my understanding this is just not very nice.
>
> So is there anything in Rails which covers my concern I haven''t
discovered yet?
>
> Thanks for all comments in advance!
>
> regards,
> Stefan
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