Restful Additions

Restful Additions is an attempt to give services access to data without sacrificing the human friendly URLs.

I lost the copy I was working on so thought I better post this backup, I believe restful_find works but not in all of the cases below.

What it does...

Best for now is probably by example.

• http://copypastel.com/posts

List of all posts paginated

• http://copypastel.com/posts/tada

Display of my post

• http://copypastel.com/posts/4

Display of my post

• http://copypsatel.com/members/daicoden/posts

List of all of my posts paginated

• http://copypastel.com/members/daicoden/posts/tada

Display of my post

• http://copypastel.com/members/daicoden/posts/1

Display of my first post (notice it isn't 4 like the post id)

• http://copypastel.com/members/1/posts/

List of all of my posts paginated

• http://copypastel.com/members/1/posts/1

Display of my post How it does it...

class PostsController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @posts = request.records_for_page
  end

  def show
    @post = request.record
  end

  def new
    @post = request.new_record
  end

  def edit
    @post = request.record
  end

  def create
    @post = request.new_record  #Actually creates the record with the params in mind

    if @post.save then flash[:notice] = 'Post was successfully created.'
    else                      flash[:error]   = @post.errors; end
  end

  def update
   @post = request.update_record
    if(@post.valid?) then flash[:notice] = 'Post was successfully updated.'
    else                        flash[:error]    = @post.errors ; end
  end

  def destroy
    @post = request.destroy_record
  end
end

#Models
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  restful_key :url_title
  restful_key :id
 
  belongs_to :author, :class_name => "Member"
end

class Member < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :posts
end

#and lastly routes
map.resources :posts
map.resources :members, :has_many => [:posts]