Model relationships and clean views

Rails
1

I’m new to RoR and am working on the development of a small project
management application just to get my hands wet. Consider the following
model entities:

class Site < ARB
has_many :projects
end

class Project < ARB
belongs_to :site
has_many :tasks
end

class Task < ARB
belongs_to :project
belongs_to :user
end

class User < ARB
has_many :tasks
end

How can I display all sites and their “child” projects without making my
view totally disgusting (or my controller for that matter)? For example:

class site_controller < ApplicationController
def list
@sites = Site.find(:all)
end
end

site/list.rhtml #view
<% @sites.each do |site|
projects = site.projects.find(:all) %>
<%= site.name %>
<% projects.each do |project| %>
<%= project.name %>
<% end %>
<% end %>

That’s obviously not the way to do it. Suggestions?

2

You need to use partial templates:

site/list.rhtml #view
<%= render(:partial => “site”, :collection => @sites) %>

site/_site.rhtml # partial template to render each site
<%= site.name %>
<%= render(:partial => “project”, :collection =>
site.projects.find(:all)) %>

site/_project.rhtml # partial template to render each project
<%= project.name %>

HTH :slight_smile: