Route #resource + member vs #connect

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Hello,

I have a Hotel model and I mapped all routes for this class via map.resources.

map.resources :hotels, :collection => { :search => :get, :cheapest => :get }

I also mapped some additional actions including a search action and a cheapest actions that returns the list of hotels filtered with a specific algorithm.

Now I need to implement a new feature for resolving some data conflict. The feature requires an action to display the conflict (HotelController#conflict => GET) and an other action for resolving the conflict (HotelController#resolve => PUT).

Because I have 2 different actions with different http methods but basically related to the same feature, should I map the features using resource :member or should I use a classic #connect and switch between get/post checking request method within the action?

map.conflict 'conflict', :controller => 'hotel', :action => 'conflict' vs map.resources :hotels, :collection => { :search => :get, :cheapest => :get }, :member => { :conflict => :get, :resolve_conflict => :put }

Is there a third option?

I see the first one is the most used but usually only because the projects I used as examples were originally designed for Rails 1.2 without a real consideration of map.resource.

Thanks, Simone

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You can add the restriction yourself:

   map.edit_account('account/edit/:id', :controller => 'account', :action => 'update',                     :conditions => { :method => :post })    map.edit_account('account/edit/:id', :controller => 'account', :action => 'edit',                     :conditions => { :method => :get })

Or in your case:

map.conflict 'hotels/:id/conflict', :controller => 'hotel', :action => 'conflict', :conditions => { :method => :get } map.conflict 'hotels/:id/conflict', :controller => 'hotel', :action => 'resolve_conflict', :conditions => { :method => :post }

-Rob

Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com

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Thanks Rob! Here http://github.com/bborn/communityengine/tree/master/routes.rb I found the following statement:

resources :users, :member_path => '/:id', :nested_member_path => '/:user_id', :member => {     ...     :forgot_password => [:get, :post],      } do |user|

but it doesn't work to me. It only seems to accepts a :post/:get/:delete/:put or :any. Do you know something more about this undocumented feature?

Simone

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No, I think I found it by reading the source of the routing helpers (or the testing support for routes). I don't recall whether I'd tried the [:get,:post] way and that failed or I just never needed to do that when routing to a single action.

-Rob

Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com