I'm having trouble making my application restful. I want to show posts
between 2 dates.
For example posts between march 2007 and may 2007. I don't know how to
represent this timespan a single resource because it has 2 parts: from
and to. The url I'm looking for is something like this /from/
01-03-2007/to/01-05-2007/posts
But that means that there are 3 resources here: "From" resource, "To"
resource and "Posts".
And nested routes would look something like this:
map.resources :from do |from|
from.resources :to do |to|
to.resources :posts
end
end
Is this solution ok, or there is some more elegant way of solving
this?
I think that the most natural way would be simply:
/posts?from=01-03-2007&to=01-05-2007
This seems like a perfecly acceptable uri from a REST point of view,
and your posts controller can simply look for params[:from], and
params[:to] in the index action
I too am looking for a good way to expose a date parameter in a url
using restful routing...
I'd like to stay away from query string parameters (i.e. ?/&) in
pursuit of cleaner urls without potential caching/search engine
difficulties. For example, I like how Dopplr structures their urls
quite a bit (probably using map.connect?):
... where 2008/01/trips are parameters used to scope journal results
(2008/01 scopes the year/month, and trips filters the results to items
of type 'trip')
Any ideas how I could achieve something similar with
map.resources? :path_prefix can enable the type of parameter passing
I need, but prepending them onto the url doesn't yield the same
logical structure I'm looking for (i.e. ability for a visitor to chop
a parameter off the url and find herself a level higher in the site's
information architecture).
