Say I have a child model with two parent models:
Event has_many tickets
Person has_many tickets
Ticket belongs_to Event
Ticket belongs_to Person
Routes are mapped so Ticket always nests within Event or Person:
resource :people do
resources :tickets
end
resources :events do
resources :tickets
end
How do I scope my ticket_Controller CRUD actions by the parent resource?
Right now I'm testing for params and using conditional statements:
class TicketController
before_filter :get_person
before_filter :get_event
def index
if @person do
...
elsif @event do
...
end
respond_to
...
end
end
That seems a bit tedious to do for every action. Is there a more rails-y DRY way to do it?
The most DRY would be to use inherited_resources:
class TicketsController < InheritedResources::Base
belongs_to :event, :person, :polymorphic => true
end
Boom...done. If you can't use inherited_resources for whatever reason, though, rather than get_person
or get_event
you could set up a filter to get_parent
like so:
class TicketsController < ActionController::Base
before_filter :get_parent
def get_parent
if params[:person_id]
@parent = Person.find(params[:person_id])
@template_prefix = 'people/tickets/'
elsif params[:event_id]
@parent = Event.find(params[:event_id])
@template_prefix = 'events/tickets/'
else
# handle this case however is appropriate to your application...
end
end
# Then you can set up your index to be more generic
def index
@tickets = @parent.tickets
render :template => @template_prefix + 'index'
end
end
Edit: I added the @template_prefix above to address the template issue you mentioned in your comment.
You could do this:
class TicketController
before_filter :get_object
def index
end
private
def get_object
type = params['event_id'] ? 'event' : 'person'
value = type.classify.constantize.find(params[:"#{type}_id"])
name = '@' + type
instance_variable_set(name , value)
end
end
There are many ways of improving the code above.
You could also write the routes as follows:
resources :people, :has_many => :tickets
resources :events, :has_many => :tickets