Use Non CRUD with Simply RESTful

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Hey guys,

I’m trying out the new RESTful bits in Edge Rails, and am having a bit
of trouble wrapping my brain around certain things. For instance, say I
have a page that is separated into sections with tabs at the top. I want
to replace divs on the page with RJS.

Now typically before I’d have a method on the controller that rendered
an RJS template to accomplish this.

I’m not sure how to go about doing this with the new CRUD paradigm. I
can’t seem to use a regular link_to_remote tag as I get a routes error,
and I’m not sure what the syntax is to call a non CRUD method with
link_to_remote passing in an id param.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

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On 8/2/06, Guest [email protected] wrote:

I’m not sure how to go about doing this with the new CRUD paradigm. I
can’t seem to use a regular link_to_remote tag as I get a routes error,
and I’m not sure what the syntax is to call a non CRUD method with
link_to_remote passing in an id param.

I’m only just figuring this out, so I’m not 100% sure on this.

Assuming you have a default route (‘:controller/:action/:id’) set up
in your routes.rb file, you should still be able to use link_to_remote
like you used to.

Additionally, you can use the :member option to add new named routes
that take an id:

map.resources :articles, :member => { :links => :get }

would let you do
links_article_url(@article)

If you don’t want it to apply to a particular object, you use the
:collection option:

map.resources :articles, :collection => { :links => :get }
links_articles_url

You then render RJS in that action. As I said, I’ve only picked this
up last night really. Those examples should all work, but I’m not
positive that it’s the correct way to use them in the first place.

Pat