Help with best approach(fairly easy question)

Rails
1

Hello!

Well this is maybe a fairly easy question. I am writing an app where
users that belong to a group have their own blog where they can make
posts. I have a posts_controller with all the CRUD operations and my
index action shows all the posts from all the users on a group. The
route is:

users/1/posts

The thing is that I want to show too, all the posts from any user, or
all the posts for a given tag or category. So my question is, which
option should I use:

  1. Should I send some extra parameters to my index action, like and id
    or something:

users_posts(user.id,{:category => 1})

and check on the controller which posts should be shown (for a user,
group, tag, category etc…)

Something like this:

def index
if params[:category]
@posts = Posts.find(:all, :conditions => ["category_id = ?,
params[:category]])
elsif params[:user]
@posts = Posts.find(:all, :conditions => ["user_id = ?,
params[:user_id]])
elsif params[:tag]
.
.
.
end

  1. Should I create different controllers with only an index action on
    it (Create and other actions stay on the posts_controller):

post_categories controller? post_tags controller? user_posts
controller?

So, which approach should I use?

Thanks again,

Elioncho

2

2008/9/19 elioncho [email protected]:

Hello!

  1. Should I send some extra parameters to my index action, like and id
    or something:

  2. Should I create different controllers with only an index action on
    it (Create and other actions stay on the posts_controller):

So, which approach should I use?

I think you should use your first. It’s a bit more coding, but you
have your code in just one controller, so you can modify only one part
and not a lot of actions, controllers et al.

Cheers!

–
Rodrigo F.
http://www.thecodekeeper.net/