controller structures

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Hello,

I am building a small test application for learning RoR. I understand most of what is going on and all my relations is set up correctly. (tested with console) I can't figure out when to spilt out models into separate controllers. Is it overkill to create a controller for each model? Let me give an example.

Users -> Pos -> Comments

The show post page will display the Post and it's comments. At the moment I got a Post controller with CRUD (R both post and comments) and a Comments controller with CUD. Would it make sense to merge these two controllers into one controller?

Best regards. Asbjørn Morell.

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It's a design decision, but I think yes if only so that you easily get seperate views/view helpers as I'm sure a Post and a Comment will look different.

If you have lots of similar bits it each then you can put them in a module/mixin in the lib directory.