Rails - Oct 2007 - Two RESTful routes to same controller - best way to implement

I have a controller that needs to render two different layouts
depending on the current path, but otherwise performs all the same
actions.

The routes for the controller are:

/bars
/foos/5/bars

Both need to call the same controller.  The rub, however, is that in
my views I don''t want to use logic everywhere to determine which named
route to call depending on whether @current_foo is set (the id of the
current foo).  Right now I have many bars_url() and
bar_url(@current_bar) routes - these should generate the proper route
based on whether the current path is /foos/:id/ or just /.

The only solution I see is to override all the named routes for
''bar''
in a helper, and include that helper in my application controller
(since these routes are used in controllers as well), but that doesn''t
seem a clean solution.

Is there any way to do this?


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Maybe resources_controller 
(http://plugins.ardes.com/doc/resources_controller/)
is what you''re looking for?
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Thanks for the reply, but we already implemented everything that
does.  I''m asking more about the actual routes - having two routes of
the same name doesn''t work, so is there a way to add some logic to
determine which route to use based on the value of an instance
variable?

On Oct 29, 4:23 am, Gerjan Stokkink
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Maybe resources_controller
> (http://plugins.ardes.com/doc/resources_controller/)
> is what you''re looking for?
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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As a further example, to accomplish two routes to same the controller,
you usually have to do a name_prefix:

so /bars is bars_url
/foo/5/bars is foo_bars_url

I want to just use bars_url everywhere - shouldn''t there be a way to
determine which route to use based on whether a parameter us set in
the current path?

On Oct 29, 8:18 am, Schneller
<andh...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, but we already implemented everything that
> does.  I''m asking more about the actual routes - having two routes
of
> the same name doesn''t work, so is there a way to add some logic to
> determine which route to use based on the value of an instance
> variable?
>
> On Oct 29, 4:23 am, Gerjan Stokkink
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Maybe resources_controller
> > (http://plugins.ardes.com/doc/resources_controller/)
> > is what you''re looking for?
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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