Rails 2.1 Generating a RESTful controller?

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I’ve recently made the upgrade to rails 2 and it seems to really
encourage restful design now.
So I’ve been looking into that and I am getting the hang of it, but it
really bothers me to have to manually setup the REST actions in the
controller.

It seems like there should be some way to script/generate restful
controller or something for example:
script/generate controller posts

would be smart enough to go ahead and include actions (index, show, new,
create, edit, update and delete) and also go ahead and fill them out
smartly based on the controller name, and knowing that I want a restful
controller and that I have a model with the same name.

so it would already have:

def index
@posts = Post.find(:all)
end

def new
@post = Post.new
end

etc.

Is there a way to do this?

If not, is this the sort of thing people would usually write a plugin
for? Maybe I could look into writing a plugin for it.

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On 21 Jun 2008, at 17:51, Chris G. wrote:

I’ve recently made the upgrade to rails 2 and it seems to really
encourage restful design now.
So I’ve been looking into that and I am getting the hang of it, but it
really bothers me to have to manually setup the REST actions in the
controller.

It seems like there should be some way to script/generate restful
controller or something for example:
script/generate controller posts

The scaffold generator in rails 2 and above generates a restful
scaffold.

Fred

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Thanks, I wondered about that, I haven’t generated scaffold since I was
first using rails a couple of years ago.

Thanks for the quick reply.
Chris