Rails - Mar 2009 - RESTful app and refactoring code in different controllers

My application contains following controllers:
1. Topics
2. Items
3. Attachments
4. Users

Following are the models:
1. Topics has_many items
2. Items has_many attachments
3. Attachments
4. Users has_many topics
5. Cities has_many counties
6. Counties has_many users, topics

A topic contains many items. When I try to display a topic, I need to
get its corresponding items, their attachments and display everything in
a single page. In addition I have some filters on who can
add/edit/delete topics/items. Previously I did it with ugly coding -
with all the code pressed in the Topics controller. Now I am trying to
make my application RESTful and stuck with many question marks.

How can I render all the topics, items, and attachments in a single
page. Previously I used lot of partials wherein main show page would
call _topics partial and it would then call _items partial etc...

Now with code being separated in different controllers I am not able to
use partials. Is there anyway I can do it? Also how can configure my
routes for this application. All I did was map.resources :topic,
:has_many => items, but I am not sure whether I doing it right way.

Any help appreciated.

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> How can I render all the topics, items, and attachments in a single
> page. Previously I used lot of partials wherein main show page would
> call _topics partial and it would then call _items partial etc...
There shouldn''t be any problem at all doing this.

You''d have a topics page, say yoursite.com/topics/sometopic

Then in the view you just loop through @topic.articles, etc. Just because you
have a restful URL scheme, it doesn''t mean that your view can only
display data from one model.

SH

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Thanks Starr.

I tried that...
But each individual item in a topic can be edited/deleted or new one 
could be added to the topic. In addition, each one has some filter on 
who can edit/delete etc..

I am unable to add these add/edit/delete links to these items. Does it 
mean something is wrong with my config/routes file?
Apart from default route, right now I have:
map.resources :topic, :has_many => items, :collection => 
{:populate_counties => post}
Step by step I will add other resource associations (e.g.: map.resources 
:items :has_many :attachments) - when I am sure whats the right way to 
do it.

Any clues?

Thanks,
CS.

Starr Horne wrote:
>> How can I render all the topics, items, and attachments in a single
>> page. Previously I used lot of partials wherein main show page would
>> call _topics partial and it would then call _items partial etc...
> 
> There shouldn''t be any problem at all doing this.
> 
> You''d have a topics page, say yoursite.com/topics/sometopic
> 
> Then in the view you just loop through @topic.articles, etc. Just 
> because you have a restful URL scheme, it doesn''t mean that your
view
> can only display data from one model.
> 
> SH
> 
> --
> Starr Horne
> My blog: http://starrhorne.com
> Check out my Helpdesk RailsKit: http://railskits.com/helpdesk/
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I think I am doing some mistake in configuring routes.
Here is what I have in my routes:
  map.resources :agendas do |agendas|
    agendas.resources :items

  end

I am not able to access items using this. I can fetch them (list items 
related to a topic) into my view, but I am not able to form other CRUD 
links to access them.


Any help appreciated...

Thanks,
CS.


Carlos Santana wrote:
> Thanks Starr.
> 
> I tried that...
> But each individual item in a topic can be edited/deleted or new one 
> could be added to the topic. In addition, each one has some filter on 
> who can edit/delete etc..
> 
> I am unable to add these add/edit/delete links to these items. Does it 
> mean something is wrong with my config/routes file?
> Apart from default route, right now I have:
> map.resources :topic, :has_many => items, :collection => 
> {:populate_counties => post}
> Step by step I will add other resource associations (e.g.: map.resources 
> :items :has_many :attachments) - when I am sure whats the right way to 
> do it.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Thanks,
> CS.
> 
> Starr Horne wrote:
>>> How can I render all the topics, items, and attachments in a single
>>> page. Previously I used lot of partials wherein main show page
would
>>> call _topics partial and it would then call _items partial etc...
>> 
>> There shouldn''t be any problem at all doing this.
>> 
>> You''d have a topics page, say yoursite.com/topics/sometopic
>> 
>> Then in the view you just loop through @topic.articles, etc. Just 
>> because you have a restful URL scheme, it doesn''t mean that
your view
>> can only display data from one model.
>> 
>> SH
>> 
>> --
>> Starr Horne
>> My blog: http://starrhorne.com
>> Check out my Helpdesk RailsKit: http://railskits.com/helpdesk/
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