You''ll have to forgive me ... I''ve been toying with rails for about a week and although I don''t feel completely lost there''s still a lot that I don''t understand. Here goes. Assume I have a controller called admin in app/controllers as well as three model classes in app/models: product, category, warehouse. How exactly do I use the admin controller to produce this kind of structure? http://example.com/admin/product/ http://example.com/admin/product/edit/1 http://example.com/admin/category/new http://example.com/admin/warehouse/show/16 ... rather than just simply: http://example.com/admin/edit/1 http://example.com/admin/list http://example.com/admin/show/16 Keep in mind that "admin" is password protected and public content is accessed like so: http://example.com/products/1 http://example.com/categories/23 etc. In my first example, are product, category and warehouse controllers as well? Or are they actions of the admin controller? If they are actions, how do I go about creating the CRUD interface that reacts to each action? In other words, how do i attach edit, show, list etc actions for each? Hope my explanation makes sense. Any help appreciated. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060224/715a2eab/attachment.html
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:39 -0500, Greg MacGregor wrote:> You''ll have to forgive me ... I''ve been toying with rails for about a > week and although I don''t feel completely lost there''s still a lot > that I don''t understand. Here goes. > > Assume I have a controller called admin in app/controllers as well as > three model classes in app/models: product, category, warehouse. How > exactly do I use the admin controller to produce this kind of > structure? > > http://example.com/admin/product/ > http://example.com/admin/product/edit/1 > http://example.com/admin/category/new > http://example.com/admin/warehouse/show/16 > > ... rather than just simply: > > http://example.com/admin/edit/1 > http://example.com/admin/list > http://example.com/admin/show/16 > > Keep in mind that "admin" is password protected and public content is > accessed like so: > > http://example.com/products/1 > http://example.com/categories/23 > > etc. > > In my first example, are product, category and warehouse controllers > as well? Or are they actions of the admin controller? If they are > actions, how do I go about creating the CRUD interface that reacts to > each action? In other words, how do i attach edit, show, list etc > actions for each? > > Hope my explanation makes sense. Any help appreciated.---- actually, I don''t think you would normally do ... http://example.com/admin/product/edit/1 but would simply do http://example.com/admin/edit/1 but since your questions pretty much follow the methodology of the Agile book, why not buy the PDF or the book and run through it as it is almost done exactly the way you are asking and would probably reduce your learning curve. Craig
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:39:12PM -0500, Greg MacGregor wrote:> You''ll have to forgive me ... I''ve been toying with rails for about a week > and although I don''t feel completely lost there''s still a lot that I don''t > understand. Here goes. > > Assume I have a controller called admin in app/controllers as well as three > model classes in app/models: product, category, warehouse. How exactly do I > use the admin controller to produce this kind of structure? > > http://example.com/admin/product/ > http://example.com/admin/product/edit/1 > http://example.com/admin/category/new > http://example.com/admin/warehouse/show/16 > > ... rather than just simply: > > http://example.com/admin/edit/1 > http://example.com/admin/list > http://example.com/admin/show/16[...] You could use just one controller and use custom routes to pick out the objects you want to edit. A better alternative is probably to have individual controllers for each object, in an admin module. You can have multiple controllers that utilize the same model. $ ruby script/generate controller "admin/product" Check out the help by calling each of the generate commands with no arguments for more information on this: $ ruby script/generate controller $ ruby script/generate model $ ruby script/generate scaffold etc... -- - Adam ** Expert Technical Project and Business Management **** System Performance Analysis and Architecture ****** [ http://www.everylastounce.com ] [ http://www.aquick.org/blog ] ............ Blog [ http://www.adamfields.com/resume.html ].. Experience [ http://www.flickr.com/photos/fields ] ... Photos [ http://www.aquicki.com/wiki ].............Wiki [ http://del.icio.us/fields ] ............. Links
Funny thing is that I have the book open in front of me! In the examples
within, something like admin/edit assumes:
def edit
@product = Product.find(params[:id])
end
... Ok. No sweat. But what if i don''t want to edit a product ... how
about a
catgeory instead?
Greg
On 2/23/06, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>
wrote:>
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:39 -0500, Greg MacGregor wrote:
> > You''ll have to forgive me ... I''ve been toying with
rails for about a
> > week and although I don''t feel completely lost
there''s still a lot
> > that I don''t understand. Here goes.
> >
> > Assume I have a controller called admin in app/controllers as well as
> > three model classes in app/models: product, category, warehouse. How
> > exactly do I use the admin controller to produce this kind of
> > structure?
> >
> > http://example.com/admin/product/
> > http://example.com/admin/product/edit/1
> > http://example.com/admin/category/new
> > http://example.com/admin/warehouse/show/16
> >
> > ... rather than just simply:
> >
> > http://example.com/admin/edit/1
> > http://example.com/admin/list
> > http://example.com/admin/show/16
> >
> > Keep in mind that "admin" is password protected and public
content is
> > accessed like so:
> >
> > http://example.com/products/1
> > http://example.com/categories/23
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > In my first example, are product, category and warehouse controllers
> > as well? Or are they actions of the admin controller? If they are
> > actions, how do I go about creating the CRUD interface that reacts to
> > each action? In other words, how do i attach edit, show, list etc
> > actions for each?
> >
> > Hope my explanation makes sense. Any help appreciated.
> ----
> actually, I don''t think you would normally do ...
>
> http://example.com/admin/product/edit/1
>
> but would simply do
>
> http://example.com/admin/edit/1
>
> but since your questions pretty much follow the methodology of the Agile
> book, why not buy the PDF or the book and run through it as it is almost
> done exactly the way you are asking and would probably reduce your
> learning curve.
>
> Craig
>
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def edit_cat @category = Category.find(params[:id]) end http://example.com/admin/edit_cat/1 assuming of course that you have a categories table/category model Craig On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:58 -0500, Greg MacGregor wrote:> > Funny thing is that I have the book open in front of me! In the > examples within, something like admin/edit assumes: > > def edit > @product = Product.find(params[:id]) > end > > ... Ok. No sweat. But what if i don''t want to edit a product ... how > about a catgeory instead? > > > Greg > > > On 2/23/06, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:39 -0500, Greg MacGregor wrote: > > You''ll have to forgive me ... I''ve been toying with rails > for about a > > week and although I don''t feel completely lost there''s still > a lot > > that I don''t understand. Here goes. > > > > Assume I have a controller called admin in app/controllers > as well as > > three model classes in app/models: product, category, > warehouse. How > > exactly do I use the admin controller to produce this kind > of > > structure? > > > > http://example.com/admin/product/ > > http://example.com/admin/product/edit/1 > > http://example.com/admin/category/new > > http://example.com/admin/warehouse/show/16 > > > > ... rather than just simply: > > > > http://example.com/admin/edit/1 > > http://example.com/admin/list > > http://example.com/admin/show/16 > > > > Keep in mind that "admin" is password protected and public > content is > > accessed like so: > > > > http://example.com/products/1 > > http://example.com/categories/23 > > > > etc. > > > > In my first example, are product, category and warehouse > controllers > > as well? Or are they actions of the admin controller? If > they are > > actions, how do I go about creating the CRUD interface that > reacts to > > each action? In other words, how do i attach edit, show, > list etc > > actions for each? > > > > Hope my explanation makes sense. Any help appreciated. > ---- > actually, I don''t think you would normally do ... > > http://example.com/admin/product/edit/1 > > but would simply do > > http://example.com/admin/edit/1 > > but since your questions pretty much follow the methodology of > the Agile > book, why not buy the PDF or the book and run through it as it > is almost > done exactly the way you are asking and would probably reduce > your > learning curve. > > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > > > -- > Greg MacGregor > Web Developer > 416-516-0395 > www.sixminutes.ca > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails