Drying up my controllers using inheritance

[Max_Muermann]

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

[Brett_Kelts_KeltexIS (Brett Kelts - KeltexIS.com)]

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