REST and CRUD Problem

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Hi,

I am trying to make my first application using REST and I am trying to embrace the CRUD!

However I am coming accross some difficulties.

In my database I have a table called "contents" and this has a content_type field. So this way I can recognise if it is a blog, article, event etc. They all share the same structure, so there is not need to make three tabels.

I first thought that I would need to create three controllers (articles_controller, blogs_controller and events_controller) to only use REST/CRUD. However I cannot do this because of the route defination of map.resources :content

What is the best way to do this using REST ? Have one controller named content and just check the content_type in the params ? If that is the case then how would I pass this param value in the url and configure routes to work nicely ?

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards Hamza

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Hi,

I have managed to come up with a solution to this problem. However I am not sure if it is the best way of doing it. Any Help will be greatly apprciated.

I have made three models. All of the models inherit from the Content model. So I have this :

class Event < Content   model :content end

class Article < Content   model :content end

class Blog < Content   model :content end

So now with these models I can do this in routes :

map.resources :blogs, :article, :events

I then have three controllers :

blogs_controller events_controller articles_controller

So now my application can be CRUD compliant, and it does not require you to pass a content_type as a parameter.

Is this the best way of doing this ? It seems to me that there is lot of repitation of code in the controllers. The only real difference will be a condition of content_type=x

Would it be better in routes to just do this :

map.resource :blogs, :controller=>"content" map.resource :article, :controller=>"content" map.resource :events, :controller=>"content"

And then in the content controller somehow look at the url to see where it is coming from ? How would one do that ?

Thank you in advance.

Kind Regards Hamza

hamza khan-cheema wrote: