Ryan Glover wrote:
First question. Do I need to create controller classes for each? I don't think I do because a single controller should be able to shunt the data between the models and the views.
No, you can use one controller if it makes sense in your application.
Second question. Say I have a view that shows a list of all people in the db. It shows first name, last name, and a 'show' link to view that persons details. For each type I would like to show a specific view, i.e. the manager_view, the employee_view etc. If I have a single controller with a show action and I pass it the person as a parameter how do I get the controller to show the correct view?
Lots of ways. The first that comes to my mind would be ...
render :template => "people/#{@person.type.to_s.underscore}"
(assuming /app/views/people/manager.rhtml, etc.)
but I'm sure someone will come up with an option in even fewer lines of
code. 