Rails - Feb 2006 - categories and admin/categories - different controllers and templates?

Is there some way to have these two sets of URLs use
totally different controllers and templates?

categories/list
categories/show/1

admin/categories/list
admin/categories/edit/1
admin/categories/destroy/1
admin/categories/update/1

Besides, of course, using different controller names
;). The first URL is publicly accessible, while the
second contains admin functions. Also, with the
second, subclassing the Category controller from the
Admin controller makes it inherit its class functions
(like before_filters, layout, etc.), simplifying
itself and the other children admin controllers quite
a bit.

Right now, I have a Category controller with many
before_filter only/except clauses, and render
:layout=>''public''|''admin'' in many
functions. And I
have several other contollers - yuck. I thought about
putting everything in one big monolithic admin
controller (list_categories, edit_category,
destroy_category, list_members, list_links, etc.).

Thanks for any thoughts!
csn


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I found this:

Controller Inheritance in Rails
http://justinfrench.com/index.php?id=122

Just about what I need, but there are three issues I
have:

- Would want the base admin controller to be named
admin_controller.rb or admin/admin_controller.rb
- How to define an index method for /admin ?
- I''ve never seen mention of this voodoo in the
official docs, so maybe it''s unsupported and might
break in future versions?

csn


--- CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there some way to have these two sets of URLs use
> totally different controllers and templates?
> 
> categories/list
> categories/show/1
> 
> admin/categories/list
> admin/categories/edit/1
> admin/categories/destroy/1
> admin/categories/update/1
> 
> Besides, of course, using different controller names
> ;). The first URL is publicly accessible, while the
> second contains admin functions. Also, with the
> second, subclassing the Category controller from the
> Admin controller makes it inherit its class
> functions
> (like before_filters, layout, etc.), simplifying
> itself and the other children admin controllers
> quite
> a bit.
> 
> Right now, I have a Category controller with many
> before_filter only/except clauses, and render
> :layout=>''public''|''admin'' in many
functions. And I
> have several other contollers - yuck. I thought
> about
> putting everything in one big monolithic admin
> controller (list_categories, edit_category,
> destroy_category, list_members, list_links, etc.).
> 
> Thanks for any thoughts!
> csn
> 
> 
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Thought of another way:

# routes.rb: map.admin_list ''admin/list/:view'',
:controller=>''admin'', :action=>''list''
# or
''admin/:view/list''

# admin controller:
  def list
    case params[:view]
      when ''categories''
        render :template=>''admin/list_categories''
      when ''items''
        ...
      when ''links''
      when ''members''
      when ''pages''
    end
  end

Pretty simple.

csn


--- CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I found this:
> 
> Controller Inheritance in Rails
> http://justinfrench.com/index.php?id=122
> 
> Just about what I need, but there are three issues I
> have:
> 
> - Would want the base admin controller to be named
> admin_controller.rb or admin/admin_controller.rb
> - How to define an index method for /admin ?
> - I''ve never seen mention of this voodoo in the
> official docs, so maybe it''s unsupported and might
> break in future versions?
> 
> csn
> 
> 
> --- CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there some way to have these two sets of URLs
> use
> > totally different controllers and templates?
> > 
> > categories/list
> > categories/show/1
> > 
> > admin/categories/list
> > admin/categories/edit/1
> > admin/categories/destroy/1
> > admin/categories/update/1
> > 
> > Besides, of course, using different controller
> names
> > ;). The first URL is publicly accessible, while
> the
> > second contains admin functions. Also, with the
> > second, subclassing the Category controller from
> the
> > Admin controller makes it inherit its class
> > functions
> > (like before_filters, layout, etc.), simplifying
> > itself and the other children admin controllers
> > quite
> > a bit.
> > 
> > Right now, I have a Category controller with many
> > before_filter only/except clauses, and render
> > :layout=>''public''|''admin'' in
many functions. And I
> > have several other contollers - yuck. I thought
> > about
> > putting everything in one big monolithic admin
> > controller (list_categories, edit_category,
> > destroy_category, list_members, list_links, etc.).
> > 
> > Thanks for any thoughts!
> > csn
> > 
> > 
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