Rails - Oct 2006 - Restful routes in edge and multiple paths to a resource

We''re rolling our own blog (http://blog.aliencamel.com/ if you want an
explanation as to why on earth we''d do this), and I''m using a
couple of
nice restful routes in the obvious way:

  map.resources :articles do |articles|
    articles.resources :comments
  end

Makes sense, but I''d also like to be able to have an independent route:

  map.resources :comments

so that I can have an admin view of all the recent comments. This
obviously doesn''t work because all the named routes clash, and I
imagine I need a separate controller to handle it too, given the logic
is a bit different.

Is there a way to make this work which is neat and relatively painless,
or should I just build a non-restful controller to handle it?

Cheers,

Pete Yandell
http://aliencamel.com/

P.S. I tried posting this message to the list via email a couple of
days ago, but it hasn''t appeared. My apologies if it suddenly shows up
and becomes a duplicate.


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On 10/17/06, Pete Yandell
<pete.yandell-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> We''re rolling our own blog (http://blog.aliencamel.com/ if you
want an
> explanation as to why on earth we''d do this), and I''m
using a couple of
> nice restful routes in the obvious way:
>
>   map.resources :articles do |articles|
>     articles.resources :comments
>   end
>
> Makes sense, but I''d also like to be able to have an independent
route:
>
>   map.resources :comments
>
> so that I can have an admin view of all the recent comments. This
> obviously doesn''t work because all the named routes clash, and I
> imagine I need a separate controller to handle it too, given the logic
> is a bit different.
>
> Is there a way to make this work which is neat and relatively painless,
> or should I just build a non-restful controller to handle it?
You can define the duplicate comment routes with the :name_prefix option.
-- 
Rick Olson
http://weblog.techno-weenie.net
http://mephistoblog.com

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