When should I create a new controller in a rails application?
Praveen BK wrote in post #1108907:
When should I create a new controller in a rails application?
Basically the same as in any other MVC based system. When you need to manage user actions and communicate information between views and models.
The most common pattern is to have a controller with the seven "RESTful" actions (index, new, show, edit, create, update & destroy) for each model object. The actions map to HTTP requests, and depend on the HTTP method used (i.e. GET, POST, DELETE, PUT/PATCH).
For example sending a GET request to http://example.com/articles would map to the "index" action of articles_contolller.rb. The "index" action retrieves a list of article model instances and passes the list to the app/views/index.html.erb view template for rending into a web browser.
In a RESTful application you want to think about breaking down your application's model into "resources" Sometimes a "resource" is basically a model object, such as Article.
Often a resource is more abstract and can be treated independently from actual model classes with their own MVC. One example of this would be a user session. There may be no model object representing the concept of a session, but there could still be an MVC for managing session in a RESTful style. In other words you would have an entry in config/routes.rb for a sessions resource with a sessions_controller.rb file with at least some of the standard RESTful actions. Maybe a "create" action for logging in users by creating a session for them and a "destroy" action for logging users out. There may be no actual persistent model representing a session, but rather the model may be nothing more than inserting the id of the user model into the session hash.
There are also many other opportunities for resources that don't map directly to models or views. Or you may choose to use a separate resource (and controller) for managing AJAX requests, or advanced search features. The possibilities are endless and depend greatly on the needs of your application.
If you have not done so already, begin with the Rails guides:
Once you have a general understanding of Rails then jump into on of the excellent tutorials such as:
Thank you so much Robert Walker. You have given me a lot of insight regarding Controller in MVC.
I Thank you again for your time and guidance.
Regards, Praveen
