Rails - Feb 2007 - How do I make an action available to multiple controllers and views?

I have an action in a controller that I need to make available to
other controllers and views.

I put the action in ApplicationController and ApplicationHelper but it
didn''t work.

Thank you for any help.


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Jose Hales-Garcia wrote:
> I have an action in a controller that I need to make available to
> other controllers and views.
> 
> I put the action in ApplicationController and ApplicationHelper but it
> didn''t work.
> 
> Thank you for any help.
ApplicationHelper houses methods for your views and not actions. If you
want actions to be shared by multiple controllers there are 2 ways of
doing this

# Put your common action in ApplicationController
# Write CommonController which will become a base class for all your
domain specific controllers .so it will look something like this

class CommonController < ApplicationController

def common_action

end

end


class Domain1Controller < CommonController

end
...
class Domain2Controller < CommonController

end

Now whenever you call common_action in either domains they will be
available for execution so url will like this

http://...../domain1/common_action
http://...../domain2/common_action

Hope this helps

-Rajesh


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At 11:41 AM 2/7/2007, you wrote:
>I have an action in a controller that I need to make available to
>other controllers and views.
>
>I put the action in ApplicationController and ApplicationHelper but it
>didn''t work.
Try putting the shared code into a module and mixing it in. It worked for me.

-Kathy Van Stone
kvs-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org



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