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Luke Redpath

2007-Oct-13 16:29 UTC

Restful Resource routes with parameters and page caching

I''m trying to set up a restful route where an Album resource has a
singletone Artwork resource. Sounds simple enough:

map.resources :albums do |album|
    album.resource :artwork,
      :controller => ''artwork'', :format =>
''jpg''
  end

With the above routing config, /albums/xxx/artwork.jpg works as
expected.

However, my artwork controller also has an option to resize the image
if a :size parameter is given. This also works:

/albums/xxx/artwork.jpg?size=100

However, I want to cache the resized artwork using Rails caching.
Adding caches_page :show works and the cached file is saved under
public/albums/xxx/artwork.jpg.

But what about when I specify a size? I want these to be cached
individually. Specifying size as a query string parameter means the
size is ignored when caching takes place (it is always stored as
artwork.jpg). What I really need is to be able to move the size
parameter into the URL, so it looks something like this:

/albums/xxx/artwork/size.jpg

This would mean page caching does what I want it to do. However I
cannot see any easy way of moving size into the URL using
map.resource. I can set up a custom route but any restful url helpers
take no notice of it. Can anybody help me with this?


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Pratik

2007-Oct-13 16:39 UTC

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Re: Restful Resource routes with parameters and page caching

Umm..I''m not a fan of nested resources, so I don''t know how
this would
behave here, but try using path_prefix

map.resources :albums do |album|
   album.resource :artwork, :controller => ''artwork'',
:format =>
''jpg'', :path_prefix => '':size''
 end

On 10/13/07, Luke Redpath
<ljredpath-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:>
> I''m trying to set up a restful route where an Album resource has a
> singletone Artwork resource. Sounds simple enough:
>
> map.resources :albums do |album|
>     album.resource :artwork,
>       :controller => ''artwork'', :format =>
''jpg''
>   end
>
> With the above routing config, /albums/xxx/artwork.jpg works as
> expected.
>
> However, my artwork controller also has an option to resize the image
> if a :size parameter is given. This also works:
>
> /albums/xxx/artwork.jpg?size=100
>
> However, I want to cache the resized artwork using Rails caching.
> Adding caches_page :show works and the cached file is saved under
> public/albums/xxx/artwork.jpg.
>
> But what about when I specify a size? I want these to be cached
> individually. Specifying size as a query string parameter means the
> size is ignored when caching takes place (it is always stored as
> artwork.jpg). What I really need is to be able to move the size
> parameter into the URL, so it looks something like this:
>
> /albums/xxx/artwork/size.jpg
>
> This would mean page caching does what I want it to do. However I
> cannot see any easy way of moving size into the URL using
> map.resource. I can set up a custom route but any restful url helpers
> take no notice of it. Can anybody help me with this?
>
>
> >
>

-- 
Cheers!
- Pratik
http://m.onkey.org

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Luke Redpath

2007-Oct-13 17:00 UTC

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Re: Restful Resource routes with parameters and page caching

I''m not sure that path_prefix is what I need here; either way, I
managed to get this working by treating size as another resource under
artwork. So in essence:

An album has ONE artwork (singleton resource).

map.resources :albums do |album|
  album.resource :artwork
end

That single piece of artwork can be represented in a number of
different sizes (could be fixed, but in my case its arbitrary):

map.resources :albums do |album|
  album.resource :artwork do |artwork|
    artwork.resources :size
  end
end

However, because the controller code to resize the image was so simple
(it was all abstracted to the model layer), I was able to handle both
the singleton artwork resource and its various sizes with a single
ArtworkController#index action:

class ArtworkController < ApplicationController
  before_filter :load_album
  caches_page :show

  def show
    @artwork = Artwork.new(@album, size = params[:id])

    send_data @artwork.to_blob,
      :disposition => ''inline'',
      :type => @artwork.content_type
  end

  private
    def load_album
      @album = SlimServer::Album.find(params[:album_id])
    end
end

The only thing here that is slightly confusing is that the size we
want arrives as params[:id]; this wouldn''t be so confusing if I was
using a separate AlbumSizesController I guess so I can live with it
(hence I''ve added the variable hint to the parameter).

The final routing config, with controller names and formats specified
is:

map.resources :albums do |album|
  album.resource :artwork, :controller => ''artwork'',
:format => ''jpg''
do |artwork|
    artwork.resources :sizes,
      :controller => ''artwork'', :format =>
''jpg''
  end
end

I can now access the raw unaltered artwork using /album/xxx/
artwork.jpg and a specific size at /album/xxx/artwork/sizes/xxx.jpg.

Hope this helps anyone with a similar issue.


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Luke Redpath

2007-Oct-13 17:02 UTC

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Re: Restful Resource routes with parameters and page caching

Small correction the above post, the following block of code should
have artwork.resources :sizes (plural).
> map.resources :albums do |album|
>   album.resource :artwork do |artwork|
>     artwork.resources :size
>   end
> end

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