Two instances of a controller?

Rails
1

Hello,

I have written a guestbook and I’d like to use it twice in my
application. One public guestbook and one private guestbook. How can I
use the very same controller for two different guestbooks?

Thanks

2

I guess for the private guess book one needs to login. Then you’ll
select the guess book for the logged in user. In the public guess
book, one just enters their information and all entries can be saved
to a default user. Well, that’s all there is too it.

Good luck,

-Conrad

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On Apr 28, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Heinz S.
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3

Yes of course, that’s how I wanna do it but the question was how to
‘create’ these two different guestbooks. I have one controller,
therefore I have one guestbook but how can I instantiate a second one
with the same controller but different entries etc.?

Conrad T. wrote:

I guess for the private guess book one needs to login. Then you’ll
select the guess book for the logged in user. In the public guess
book, one just enters their information and all entries can be saved
to a default user. Well, that’s all there is too it.

Good luck,

-Conrad

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 28, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Heinz S.
<[email protected]

4

Not necessarily two tables. I read somewhere that it’s possible to use
the same controller/model/whatever for various instances.

I don’t know if you guys got me right… I’ve got a guestbook
controller/model/etc. and decide to have another guestbook. Copying the
controller/model/etc. and rename it to guestbook2 is very stupid that’s
why I would like to know how I can use the same controller/model/etc.
and have 2 different guestbooks.

Colin L. wrote:

Data is not stored in a controller it is stored in the database, using a
model. Is it that you want two tables with the two guestbooks in it?
That
does not sound like the best solution.

2009/4/28 Heinz S. [email protected]

5

Data is not stored in a controller it is stored in the database, using a
model. Is it that you want two tables with the two guestbooks in it?
That
does not sound like the best solution.

2009/4/28 Heinz S. [email protected]

6

I still don’t understand what you mean by two guestbooks. If all you
want
is for different users to see different data then have one guestbook but
select the records based on the user. If you want the second book to be
selected by a different url you could just pass a parameter to the
controller (in the url) to select the records. There are probably
numerous
ways, it all depends what exactly you are trying to achieve.

2009/4/28 Heinz S. [email protected]

7

Or perhaps what you want is a table guest_books with one record for each
book. Then the data is in a table guest_book_entries where GuestBook
has_many GuestBookEntries and GuestBookEntries belongs_to GuestBook.

2009/4/28 Colin L. [email protected]