Resource_feeder and nested resources

Rails
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hi,
I’ve a problem with resource_feeder plugin, basically works fine until
we give nested resource url.

Basically: /blog/1/posts/2, named route: blog_post_url

This needs :blog_id and :id passed as a parameter, otherwise it cannot
work.

I’ve managed to go through some :link => lamda { |o| whatever… }
in :feed and :item options, but I’ve got no luck.
Also I’ve tried to specify :url_rewriter option, but I come up with
nothing.

any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[…]
@posts = BlogPost.find(:all, :order => ‘created_at DESC’, :limit
=> limit)
options_for_feed = {
:feed => { :title => “Latest #{limit} Blog Posts”},
:item => { :description => :excerpt }
}
respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.rss { render_rss_feed_for(@posts, options_for_feed) }
format.atom { render_atom_feed_for(@posts, options_for_feed) }
end

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Hi Claudio,

This may work, it’s untested, completely off the top of my head,
and it will only work to generate urls for records with existing
ids (which your blog_posts do have).

In the lib directory create a file called blog_post_url_writer.rb
with the following contents:

class BlogPostUrlWriter
def initialize(controller)
@controller = controller
end

def blog_post_url(blog_post)
@controller.send :blog_post_url, blog_post.blog_id, blog_post
end
end

Then, in your controller you do:

blog_post_url_writer = BlogPostUrlWriter.new(self)

and in your options_for_feed you add:

:url_writer => blog_post_url_writer

That should route the calls resource feeder makes to blog_post_url
through your special BlogPostUrlWriter instance, which as you can see
above, inserts the :blog_id into the call to the real blog_post_url
helper.

HTH,
Trevor

On 30-Mar-07, at 4:54 AM, Claudio P. ð wrote:

3

hi Trevor,
thanks so much for this code, well written and I will test it soon as
I can.

thanks again.

Claudio

Il giorno 30/mar/07, alle ore 18:43, Trevor S. ha scritto:

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On Mar 30, 6:43 pm, Trevor S. [email protected] wrote:

Hi Claudio,

This may work, it’s untested, completely off the top of my head,
and it will only work to generate urls for records with existing
ids (which your blog_posts do have).
[…]

allright, now I’m not in hurry and I can write a complete response :slight_smile:

your code works wonderfully, and I’ll blog about it right now (
http://railswatcher.com ) giving you credit.

For people that doesn’t want to bother reading the article here’s the
code for controller:

def index
limit = 10
@posts = BlogPost.find(:all, :order => ‘created_at DESC’, :limit
=> limit)
blog_post_url_writer = BlogPostUrlWriter.new(self)
options_for_feed = {
:feed => { :title => “Latest #{limit} Blog Posts on
iCoreTech.org”, :link => “http://example.com” },

remember to fill those fields, title, description and pub_date, I’ve

encountered problems without.
:item => { :title => :title, :description => :excerpt, :pub_date
=> :created_at },
:url_writer => blog_post_url_writer
}
respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.rss { render_rss_feed_for(@posts, options_for_feed) }
format.atom { render_atom_feed_for(@posts, options_for_feed) }
end
end

Thanks!

Claudio