Re: [PhillyOnRails] RESTful controller overloading

[Mike Mangino <mmangino@elevatedrails.com>]

Mort, I've done something like this. You can use

map.resources :students, :controller => "people"

You will probably need to have a type field in your form. This also  
will allow people to view students via the teachers resource. If that  
is a problem, you can pass a type of role parameter and use params 
[:role].classify.constantize to get the appropriate class to use for  
finders.

Mike

On Sep 20, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Mort Goldman wrote:

> I’ve got a few resources which are probably best represented as  
> generalization hierarchies – as a simple example let’s say you have  
> Students, Teachers, and Administrators who are all subtypes of  
> Persons.  In the standard denormalization process I collapsed the  
> subtypes into the supertype and only created the model / table for  
> Person/People with a role attribute.
>
>
>
> I want to create each of the subtypes as resources, so that I could  
> for example request a GET on Students.  At the same time, I’d like  
> to only have one controller.  Has anyone tried doing this?  Seems  
> there should be an easy way to set up routes to handle this, but  
> I’m not seeing it.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mort
>
>
>
> Mort Goldman
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