inferred_routes plugin

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Hi --

I've written a little plugin -- consisting entirely of modifications to define_url_helper in ActionController -- which will infer nested named RESTful route components from one object.

For example, given a nest like this:

   map.resources :schools do |s|      s.resources :departments do |d|        d.resources :teachers      end    end

instead of doing this:

   teacher_url(@school, @department, @teacher)

the plugin lets you do:

   teacher_url(@teacher)

and it infers that you really want:

   teacher_url(@teacher.department.school, @teacher.department, @teacher)

It's very much a "see if people like it" kind of thing. So let me know.

You can get it via subversion from:

   http://www.risleydale.net/svn/inferred_routes/tags/0.1.0

David

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Hi --

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David,

one more question before you put your sword to rest : what about polymorphic associations?

   map.resources :articles do |article|       article.resources :comments    end    map.resources :photos do |photo|       photo.resources :comments    end

In this case,     comments_url(@comment) should translate to something like     comments_url(@comment.commentable_id, @comment) (?? and what about the 'commentable_type)

I must confess I'm a REST newbie, so I'm not sure at all REST can work with polymorphism.

Alain