ActiveCrudify
A dynamic resource controller for Rails > 3.0 that keeps your controllers nice and skinny.
ActiveCrudify was inspired from Crudify.
Installation
It's best to install ActiveCrudify by adding your Rails project's Gemfile:
# Gemfile
source "http://rubygems.org"
gem 'active_crudify', '>= 0.1.0'
Now run:
bundle install
Usage
In its most basic form, active_crudify is designed to be used like this:
class PostsController < ApplicationController
crudify :post
end
Say you want to customize an action that's being defined by crudify, simply overwrite it!
class PostsController < ApplicationController
crudify :post
def create
@post = Post.new(params[:post])
# ... the rest of your custom action
end
end
Ok that seems easy enough, but what if my action is just a tiny bit different? That's where the hook methods come in...
Hook Methods
`before_create`
`before_update`
`before_destroy`
`before_action`
You can define hook_methods in your controller just like this:
def before_create
do_something
supre
end
Notice: that before_create
calls a second hook; before_action
. This is a generic hook that fires before every crud method's call to save
, update
or destroy
. This means it might be helpful for you to call super
when overwriting this method so that the chain of hooks keeps firing.
Notice: if hook_methods return false, the action will return. Because in action it call hook_methods just like this:
def create
...
return if before_create === false
...
end
Here's an example of a before_create
hook:
class PostsController < ApplicationController
crudify :post
def before_create
@post. == current_user
super
end
end