Possible to change controller's default action?

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Is it possible to change a controller’s default action

  • say from “index” to “list”?

mydomain.com/item (I want it to “list” rather than
“index”)

thanks
csn

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Hi !

2005/11/11, CSN [email protected]:

Is it possible to change a controller’s default action

  • say from “index” to “list”?

Redirect to :list, or render :list should do it !

If you look at scaffolded code, the second solution is the one used.

Hope that helps !
François

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Right, but I have different templates (displaying
different stuff) for index and list.

csn

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On Nov 11, 2005, at 10:27 PM, Francois B. wrote:

Hi !

2005/11/11, CSN [email protected]:

Is it possible to change a controller’s default action

  • say from “index” to “list”?

Redirect to :list, or render :list should do it !

If you look at scaffolded code, the second solution is the one used.

You can also set up a route:

map.connect “special/:action”, :controller => “special”, :action
=> “list”

  • Jamis
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On 12.11.2005, at 10.15, CSN wrote:

Right, but I have different templates (displaying
different stuff) for index and list.

So you have both actions, index and list, that do different things.
However, you don’t want the action index to be the default one. Am I
right?

I don’t really understand why, since index is the name for a
default file of a “folder”. If you use page caching, you will
probably run into trouble for this exact reason, even if you use the
trick I’m about to tell you. So caveat emptor.

Put this into your routes:

map.connect “special/”, :controller => “special”, :action => “list”

//jarkko

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Well, I just wanted my URLs to be as so:

mysite.com → item’s index action (which has different
queries and layout than ‘list’)
mysite.com/items → item’s list action
mysite.com/item/id → item’s show action

and there are other URLs:

mysite.com/member → member’s index/show action (uses
session)
mysite.com/members → member’s list action

This is likely achievable with routes, and I briefly
tried, but it became complicated (I didn’t know there
would be caching issues either, which I haven’t gotten
into yet).

csn

— Jarkko L. [email protected] wrote:

right?

Redirect to :list, or render :list should do it !

If you look at scaffolded code, the second
solution
is the one used.

Hope that helps !
François

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On 14.11.2005, at 11.39, CSN wrote:

mysite.com/member → member’s index/show action (uses
session)
mysite.com/members → member’s list action

This is likely achievable with routes, and I briefly
tried, but it became complicated (I didn’t know there
would be caching issues either, which I haven’t gotten
into yet).

There shouldn’t be any issues with the url’s described above. They’re
just url’s and you can map them to controllers/actions using routes.
What do you mean by it becoming complicated? If you want that the
url’s in your app behave in some other way than the
normal :controller/:action/:id, you need to tell it to Rails. It
can’t AFAIK read your mind (yet).

So, here we go, nothing special or extremely complicated:

map.connect “”, :controller => “item”, :action => “index”
map.connect “items”, :controller => “item”, :action => “list”
map.connect “item/:id”, :controller => “item”, :action => “show”

map.connect “member”, :controller => “member”, :action => “index” #
You don’t really need this, this obeys the standard Rails convention
map.connect “members”, :controller => “member”, :action => “list”

You might also want to take a look at named routes.

//jarkko

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On 14.11.2005, at 12.16, CSN wrote:

Cool, thanks. Is there a URL which has documentation
for ‘named routes’? There doesn’t appear to be
anything map/route related at api.rubyonrails.org
(figured it’d be ActionController::Routes or
something).

Sorry, forgot that. Peak Obsession

And in what release is mind-reading planned?

There is a debate going on on whether that would make Rails a bit too
‘opinionated’. But we’ll see.

//jarkko

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Cool, thanks. Is there a URL which has documentation
for ‘named routes’? There doesn’t appear to be
anything map/route related at api.rubyonrails.org
(figured it’d be ActionController::Routes or
something).

And in what release is mind-reading planned?

thanks
csn

— Jarkko L. [email protected] wrote:

mysite.com/item/id → item’s show action
tried, but it became complicated (I didn’t know
want that the
“index”
:action => “list”
— Jarkko L. [email protected] wrote:

However, you don’t want the action index to be
probably run into trouble for this exact reason,

If you look at scaffolded code, the second

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