https://github.com/fdv/acts-as-resource

Acts as resource plugin
https://github.com/fdv/acts-as-resource

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Acts as resource plugin

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fdv/acts-as-resource
• Owner: fdv
• Created: 2008-10-23T10:48:33.000Z (over 17 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2008-10-23T10:48:34.000Z (over 17 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-23T21:41:20.327Z (about 1 year ago)
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• Size: 82 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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ActsAsResource

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acts_as_resource lets you handle nested resource controllers neatly without

having to modify every single call to a named route to include the full list of

resources used to reach the target resource.

Consider a routing table like

    map.resources :albums do |album|

      album.resources :songs

    end

By configuring your models like

    class Album < ActiveRecord::Base

      has_many :songs

      acts_as_resource

    end

and

    class Song < ActiveRecord::Base

      belongs_to :album

      acts_as_resource :parent => :album

    end

You get a bunch of handy stuff. In your Song views, for instance, where before

you had to do +song_path @song.album, @song+, you can now do: +song_path @song+

and the named route will use the 'parent' info to work out what objects are

needed to build the path.

In your controllers meanwhile, you get a generic +fetch_resources+ which

automagically fetches the appropriate resources for the request, checking that

they are properly accessible from the 'base' resource and assigns them

to appropriately named instance variables (following the conventions used by

the resource_scaffolding that comes with Rails 1.2.1).

You also get a new controller method, +resource_chain+, that you can use for

writing generic actions. We don't *quite* have enough support to replace the

scaffold generated controller with simple inheritance, but we're getting there.

Bug Reports

===========

This is very much beta software with a distinct lack of either documentation or

tests. I have (at least) worked out how to address the lack of tests, so expect

more tests in the next release.

In the mean time, if you have issues, drop me mail at ,

or, for the time being, post a ticket on the typo trac

http://www.typosphere.org/, but tag the ticket [acts_as_plugin]