Rails - Feb 2009 - rest-ish method for subsetting an index view?

Hey All,

My app keeps track of /people.  A Person has a .typical_role property, which
(right now) takes one of the following values: ["Programmer",
"Investigator", "Project Manager", "Other"].

What''s the best/easiest/neato-cool way to allow users to specify which
subset of people they want to see on the URL?  I''m thinking of urls
like:

  /people/project_managers
  /people/programmers

etc.

If I wanted to do that, what would I have to do to my routes.rb, controller,
etc.?  Right now all I''ve got is:

  map.resources :people

Would it be better/easier to just try to have e.g., a /project_managers index
(resource? is that the right terminology?) right at the root of the app &
not try to hang if off of /people at all?

Many thanks!

-Roy

Roy Pardee
Research Analyst/Programmer
Group Health Center For Health Studies (Cancer Research Network)
(206) 287-2078
Google Talk: rpardee

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You could always do something like this:

map.connect ''/people/:role'', :controller =>
''people'', :action => ''index''

Personally, I''d probably go with a url structure like
/people/filter/programmers:

map.resources :people, :collection => { :filter => :get }

SH

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