This is in a CMS type application, and the controller is for creating a
‘page’.
I have:
def create
category = Category.find( params[:categor_id] )
text = params[:article_body]
article = Article.new
article.category_id = category.id
article.ip_address = request.remote_ip
artcle.original_text = text
article.formatted_text = ## some markdown call here to parse text
article.user_id = current_user.id
article.is_approved = true
article.save
end
Now the problem is I do the same sort of thing for updates and other
places,
how would you suggest I refactor this?
You could create a method in the Article class that handles all this.
class Article
def self.custom_create(category, user, text, ip_address, is_approved)
a = Article.new
a.category_id = category.id
a.ip_address = ip_address
a.user_id = user.id
a.original_text = text
a.formatted_text = text.markdowned()
a.is_approved = is_approved
a.save
end
end
Then you could just call this from your controller:
Article.custom_create(category, current_user, params[:article_body],
request.remote_ip, true)
Maybe what you need is make use of rails_best_practices gem
once you install it and run in your rails project it will discover this
kind of problematic controllers and tell you about ‘code smell’. Plus,
it will point you to solution on http://rails-bestpractices.com/.
Anyway, if you run this gem in console, then just search by ‘problem
message’ on rails-bestpractices.com site and you will find post which
explain how to remedy ‘code smell’ how they call it.
What Tim S. replied you is called - Factory Method:
http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/6-replace-complex-creation-with-factory-method