Sigh, yeah, there's always that way. So unrailsy... but probably what
I'll end up doing. Or I could patch Resources to make it push any
unclaimed options into params. But parsing the URI by hand is probably
easier.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Greg DeVore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ian-
> I don't know how you would do that in the way you are describing. One
> possibility though would be to do this:
>
> map.resources :sons, :controller => "papas"
> map.resources :daughters, :controller => "papas"
>
> This will point both routes to the papas controller. You won't see
> "sons" or "daughters" come through as params. But you can query
> request.env['REQUEST_URI'] and you would get back something like '/
> sons/new/'.
>
> So:
> 1. request.env['REQUEST_URI'].split("/") will give you an array
> ["","sons","new"]
> 2. access [1] of the array and you will have your parameter.
>
> A little convoluted but I think that it would do what you want.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Oct 1, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:
>
>>
>> Sure. You have it basically right, but let me elaborate.
>>
>> I have models like so:
>>
>> class Papa < ActiveRecord::Base; abstract_class = true; end
>> class Daughter < Papa; end
>> class Son < Papa; end
>>
>> I have this controller:
>>
>> class PapaController < ApplicationController
>> def new; @model = new_model; end
>> def new_model
>> params[:type].classify.constantize.new # there's more safety logic
>> here in reality, but this is the gist
>> end
>> end
>>
>> I started with the default route:
>>
>> map.resources :papa
>>
>> So, then, I can create a new son by doing GET /papa/new?type=son,
>> which is fine, but not ideal. Ideally, I would do GET /son/new, but it
>> would still use the Papa controller, and set params[:type] to "son".
>> This is what I have right now:
>>
>> map.resources :papa, :path_prefix => '/:type'
>>
>> which allows me to GET /son/papa/new, and create links like
>> papa_path(@model.type.to_s.downcase, @model).
>>
>> So the question is how to make these specs pass:
>>
>> params_from(:get, "/son/new").should == {:controller => 'papa',
>> :action => 'new', :type => 'son'}
>> params_from(:get, "/daughter/new").should == {:controller => 'papa',
>> :action => 'new', :type => 'daughter'}
>>
>> Is that clearer?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ian
>>
>
> >
>
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