# Questions concerning Rails MCV architecture **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 31, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/questions-concerning-rails-mcv-architecture/127749 "2008-01-31T22:01:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/questions-concerning-rails-mcv-architecture/127749/1 "2008-01-31T22:01:14Z")
Hello Rails community! I’m currently designing a rails based website for my school’s magazine and since I have the ability to start from scratch I decided to start learning rails. Which may or may not have been a silly idea :). However, very early on I’ve encountered an issue with how I should set up the site. Currently there are separate sections involving (for example), Stories Editor’s Blogs Podcasts Videos Etc. All able to be commented on, etc. So it’s going to be a community based site for my campus. The question I have though, is should there be a separate controller for each of the sections? Or one over all controller that handles all incoming content? Sorry if this is a basic question, I’ve done some searching but I haven’t been able to come up with much in regard to this. If there’s some resource that covers this in more depth (ie: multiple content type postings) I’d love to read into it. Otherwise, Thanks for your time and input on the matter! Justin ---
**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/questions-concerning-rails-mcv-architecture/127749/2 "2008-01-31T22:21:51Z")
Make separate controllers. And have a look at acts\_as\_commentable plugin ---
**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/questions-concerning-rails-mcv-architecture/127749/3 "2008-02-01T01:15:11Z")
Maybe it’s that you want to take this opportunity to learn programming, but I was thinking about your list of services you want to provide. Personally, I don’t think I would even build an application at all. There are plenty of other out-of-box solutions to accomplish all those goals: Stories - A wiki could handle this nicely. Blogs - Any one of dozens of bloggers could take care of this. Podcasts - Blogs with audio files Videos - Blogs with video files attached. All of the above already handle comments. Granted, maybe your application will provide more that what is listed here, but if not then I don’t see the need to reinvent this wheel. ---
**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/questions-concerning-rails-mcv-architecture/127749/4 "2008-02-01T17:42:01Z")
The plan is to expand this out to much more than a simple news aggregation system, but into a system to where editors can assign stories, track writers progress, and eventually act as a system for online deployment. Much of this probably could be done with already available materials, however I am using it as a chance to learn ruby and to set up the paper with a nice full featured website. They have a current system deployed, but it’s riddled with problems (Mostly coming from 4 different people working with php all at differing times). However, I did seriously consider your suggestion when I started to work on this project 🙂