RESTful design with multiple model types on one page

Rails
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I have a nice RESTful design with separate pages for viewing and
modifying
my models in the conventional RESTful way. I now wish to provide a web
page
with several panels where each panel is showing data for a different
model
type. Data entered in one panel will change the objects shown in
another.
I am not sure of the best way to impliment this. Should I have an
independant controller (with no model of it’s own) to manage this, which
obtains data from the various models and renders it’s view, using
partials
to display the panels? Is there a better way?

I am sure this has been answered many times before but I have not seen
the
problem identified in discussions of REST that I have found, and I have
not
managed to formulate a google search to provide the answer.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

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On Mar 8, 3:09 pm, Colin L. [email protected] wrote:

I have a nice RESTful design with separate pages for viewing and modifying
my models in the conventional RESTful way. I now wish to provide a web page
with several panels where each panel is showing data for a different model
type. Data entered in one panel will change the objects shown in another.
I am not sure of the best way to impliment this. Should I have an
independant controller (with no model of it’s own) to manage this, which
obtains data from the various models and renders it’s view, using partials
to display the panels? Is there a better way?

you can use the same controller to do this. just use partials for
different models. Are the models associated? if yes, then it may be a
bit complex. if not, then it would be quite easy.
as for observing the changes, you could use the observe_field method
of prototypehelper