Rails - May 2008 - restful routes question

Hi,

a small question about restful routing.

Imagine i have an application with channels and videos
A channel contains videos.
So i have in my routes.rb:
map.resources :channels, :has_many => :videos

But i have one problem: some actions concern all videos across all
channels.
So say i add in my routes.rb:
map.resources :videos
on top of the one above.

The problem is that both routes point to the same controller :
VideosController.
This controller risks becoming a little awkward.

What is your advice ? how to cleanly split this ?  use namespaces ?
Thank you,

Elise
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Dear Elise

make your relations in your modul:
Channel model:
has_many :videos

Video model:
belongs_to :channel

Routing:

map.resources :channels do |channel|
   channel.resources :videos

map.resources :videos


regards
svend

huard.elise-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a small question about restful routing.
>
> Imagine i have an application with channels and videos
> A channel contains videos.
> So i have in my routes.rb:
> map.resources :channels, :has_many => :videos
>
> But i have one problem: some actions concern all videos across all
> channels.
> So say i add in my routes.rb:
> map.resources :videos
> on top of the one above.
>
> The problem is that both routes point to the same controller :
> VideosController.
> This controller risks becoming a little awkward.
>
> What is your advice ? how to cleanly split this ?  use namespaces ?
> Thank you,
>
> Elise
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(I may be mistaken, but I think the ap.resources :channels, :has_many => 
:videos provides also the non-nested routes)

I guess my controllers are akward by your standards :-) but when I face 
this requirement I usually just check if the parent object exists or 
not. So in by before_filter I do:

  @channel = Channel.find(params[:channel_id] rescue nil

And the index (for example)

def index
  if @channel
    @videos = @channel.find..
  else
    @videos = Video.find..
  end
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thanks Abigail - that''s what i''ve been doing so far as well,
no insult
intended :-)
just wondered if there was different way to handle this.
Thanks,

Elise

On May 22, 2:27 pm, Abigail Headroom <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-
s.net> wrote:
> (I may be mistaken, but I think the ap.resources :channels, :has_many =>
> :videos provides also the non-nested routes)
>
> I guess my controllers are akward by your standards :-) but when I face
> this requirement I usually just check if the parent object exists or
> not. So in by before_filter I do:
>
>   @channel = Channel.find(params[:channel_id] rescue nil
>
> And the index (for example)
>
> def index
>   if @channel
>     @videos = @channel.find..
>   else
>     @videos = Video.find..
>   end
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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