restful routes question

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Hi,

a small question about restful routing.

Imagine i have an application with channels and videos A channel contains videos. So i have in my routes.rb: map.resources :channels, :has_many => :videos

But i have one problem: some actions concern all videos across all channels. So say i add in my routes.rb: map.resources :videos on top of the one above.

The problem is that both routes point to the same controller : VideosController. This controller risks becoming a little awkward.

What is your advice ? how to cleanly split this ? use namespaces ? Thank you,

Elise

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Dear Elise

make your relations in your modul: Channel model: has_many :videos

Video model: belongs_to :channel

Routing:

map.resources :channels do |channel|    channel.resources :videos

map.resources :videos

regards svend

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(I may be mistaken, but I think the ap.resources :channels, :has_many => :videos provides also the non-nested routes)

I guess my controllers are akward by your standards :slight_smile: but when I face this requirement I usually just check if the parent object exists or not. So in by before_filter I do:

  @channel = Channel.find(params[:channel_id] rescue nil

And the index (for example)

def index   if @channel     @videos = @channel.find..   else     @videos = Video.find..   end

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thanks Abigail - that's what i've been doing so far as well, no insult intended :slight_smile: just wondered if there was different way to handle this. Thanks,

Elise