Module: ResourcesController::Actions

Included in:
SingletonActions
Defined in:
lib/resources_controller/actions.rb

Overview

standard CRUD actions, with html, js and xml responses, re-written to mnake best use of resources_cotroller. This helps if you’re writing controllers that you want to share via mixin or inheritance.

This module is used as the actions for the controller by default, but you can change this behaviour:

resources_controller_for :foos, :actions_include => false               # don't include any actions
resources_controller_for :foos, :actions_include => Some::Other::Module # use this module instead

Why?

The idea is to decouple the model name from the action code.

Here’s how:

finding and making new resources

Instead of this:

@post = Post.find(params[:id])
@post = Post.new
@posts = Post.find(:all)

do this:

self.resource = find_resource
self.resource = new_resource
self.resources = find_resources

referring to resources

Instead of this:

format.xml { render :xml => @post }
format.xml { render :xml => @posts }

do this:

format.xml { render :xml => resource }
format.xml { render :xml => resources }

urls

Instead of this:

redirect_to posts_url
redirect_to new_post_url

do this:

redirect_to resources_url
redirect_to new_resource_url

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#create ⇒ Object

POST /events POST /events.xml



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# File 'lib/resources_controller/actions.rb', line 93

def create
  self.resource = new_resource
  
  respond_to do |format|
    if resource.save
      format.html do
        flash[:notice] = "#{resource_name.humanize} was successfully created."
        redirect_to resource_url
      end
      format.js
      format.xml  { render :xml => resource, :status => :created, :location => resource_url }
    else
      format.html { render :action => "new" }
      format.js   { render :action => "new" }
      format.xml  { render :xml => resource.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
    end
  end
end

#destroy ⇒ Object

DELETE /events/1 DELETE /events/1.xml



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# File 'lib/resources_controller/actions.rb', line 135

def destroy
  self.resource = destroy_resource
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html do
      flash[:notice] = "#{resource_name.humanize} was successfully destroyed."
      redirect_to resources_url
    end
    format.js
    format.xml  { head :ok }
  end
end

#edit ⇒ Object

GET /events/1/edit



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# File 'lib/resources_controller/actions.rb', line 82

def edit
  self.resource = find_resource
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html # edit.html.erb
    format.js
    format.xml  { render :xml => resource }
  end
end

#index ⇒ Object

GET /events GET /events.xml



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# File 'lib/resources_controller/actions.rb', line 48

def index
  self.resources = find_resources

  respond_to do |format|
    format.html # index.rhtml
    format.js
    format.xml  { render :xml => resources }
  end
end

#new ⇒ Object

GET /events/new



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# File 'lib/resources_controller/actions.rb', line 71

def new
  self.resource = new_resource

  respond_to do |format|
    format.html # new.html.erb
    format.js
    format.xml  { render :xml => resource }
  end
end

#show ⇒ Object

GET /events/1 GET /events/1.xml



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# File 'lib/resources_controller/actions.rb', line 60

def show
  self.resource = find_resource

  respond_to do |format|
    format.html # show.erb.html
    format.js
    format.xml  { render :xml => resource }
  end
end

#update ⇒ Object

PUT /events/1 PUT /events/1.xml



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# File 'lib/resources_controller/actions.rb', line 114

def update
  self.resource = find_resource
  
  respond_to do |format|
    if resource.update_attributes(params[resource_name])
      format.html do
        flash[:notice] = "#{resource_name.humanize} was successfully updated."
        redirect_to resource_url
      end
      format.js
      format.xml  { head :ok }
    else
      format.html { render :action => "edit" }
      format.js   { render :action => "edit" }
      format.xml  { render :xml => resource.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
    end
  end
end