Creating RESTful helpers on the fly

If I have a resource called 'assets' then I get for free a bunch of helpers, like

assets_path new_asset_path

and so forth, right?

I would like to be able to create a call to one of these on the fly when I only find out the name of the resource at run time. For example I would like to do this:

resource_name = "assets" resource_path(resource_name, method => :new)

Anyone know the Rails/Rest/Routing incantation for that? Thanks!

Pito

I believe you are looking for the "url_for" helper. Probably a number of ways you can use it.

This one works, and uses the named "new_asset" route. Just make sure resource_name is singular.

url_for(("new_"+resource_name).to_sym)

Or if the controllers have the standard REST naming, this should also work:

url_for(:controller=>resource_name, :action=>:new)

I found this, which I think is going to work

ActionDispatch::Routing::PolymorphicRoutes

In: actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/polymorphic_routes.rb:

"Polymorphic URL helpers are methods for smart resolution to a named route call when given an Active Record model instance. They are to be used in combination with ActionController::Resources.

These methods are useful when you want to generate correct URL or path to a RESTful resource without having to know the exact type of the record in question.

Nested resources and/or namespaces are also supported, as illustrated in the example:

  polymorphic_url([:admin, @article, @comment]) results in:

  admin_article_comment_url(@article, @comment) "

Thanks!