Drying up my controllers using inheritance

rubyonrails-talk
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Maybe this might work for you:

class BaseController < ActionController::Base

  def BaseController.model(model_name)     @model_class = const_get(Inflector.classify(model_name))     @model_var = model_name   end

  def show     inst_var="@#{model_var}", model_class.find(params[:id]     instance_variable_set(inst_var)     if inst_var.active?       render :action => 'show_active_true'     else       render :action => 'show_active_false'     end    rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound     logger.error("An attempt has been made to access a #{model_class.name} that does not   exist in the database. The #{model_class.name} id was #{params[:id]}")     flash_failure 'An attempt has been made to access a #{model_class.name} that does   not exist in the database.'     redirect_to :action => 'index'   end

end

And:

class HomeController < BaseController   model :home end

Cheers, Max

2

Or you could do the same thing by mixing in a module. That seems a little more Ruby-like to me.