[rspec-users] spec'ing metaprograming & rails CRUD

[Michael Trier]

On Mar 24, 2007, at 5:11 AM, Scott Taylor wrote:

>
> For edge rails there is a Crud generator.  There is also a CRUD
> controller that is out there from which you can inherit your other
> controllers (see http://geekonomics.blogspot.com/2006/07/crud-and-
> shared-controllers.html)
>
> This got me thinking about Crud controllers in general.  As far as I
> know, the generator can't produce crud classes which are nested
> (i.e. /posts/1/comments/7).  So I thought about creating my own Crud
> class from which to inherit from, with some private methods, like so:
>
> class CrudController < ActiveRecord::Base
>    class << self
>      private
>      def model
>       # get a default name based on the controller name
>       # or specify a name
>      end
>
>      def belongs_to
>        # the model's "belongs_to"/foreign key relationship
>        # this could also be found dynamically
>      end
>    end
> end
>
> class CommentsController < CrudController
>    model :comments
>    belongs_to :post
> end

You might want to look into the resource_controller plugin: (http:// 
svn.ardes.com/rails_plugins/resources_controller/

It does what you're describing in a very nice way and supports nested  
as well as acts_as_tree situations.

Michael
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