Hi folks,
Here’s the deal:
I’ve got an Article model and an ArticlesController with a set of
templates that I like so much, I need to share it with different parts
of the site which have different URL’s. I’m using REST for the
articles.
So at the top-level of the site, I might have something like:
http://example.com/news/articles
map.resources :articles, :path_prefix => “news”
I also have many “subsites” of my domain which need news articles,
too:
http://example.com/example_subsite/news/articles
map.resources :articles, :path_prefix => “:subsite/news”, :name_prefix
=> “subsite_”
So, yeah, this would work out OK. But this means that in my Article
templates when I’m calling the named routes, I’d probably have to make
a helper method like:
def article_path_helper(path, subsite = false)
if subsite
send(‘subsite_’ + path, :subsite => subsite)
else
path
end
end
So as an example in my Article templates:
article_path_helper(‘edit_article_path’, @subsite)
@subsite would get set by some logic in the controller if we’re routed
from a subsite URL, otherwise it’s false.
Maybe it’s my inexperience, but this seems dirty and like I’m doing
something wrong. Are the named routes provided by the REST stuff worth
using in this case? Maybe I should ignore the named routes and use
url_for instead, if that would make things any easier… not sure.
I tried to keep this brief, but can elaborate if needed… hope it’s
clear enough. I’d love to have anyone’s thoughts on solving this
particular problem.