Using routes instead of method_missing in Controllers

February 27th, 2006

Over on Software Development Budoka, Berin Loritsch talks about supporting The Rel-Tag Microformat in Rails. Unfortunately, he uses a very obscure approach.

Here is his code: Unfortunately, that is very unclear. Much better to use routes to do the same thing:

In my mind, that seems to be the easiest way to do the job.

2 Responses to “Using routes instead of method_missing in Controllers”

  1. Berin Loritsch Says:
    October 12th, 2007 at 10:25 PM

    You know, I tend to not want to mess with routes too much. However, you are right in that you have outlined a cleaner approach.

    I just remember some code from a demo which created a “playback” object. I.e. something that recorded actions on an object so that you could play them back on something else. That’s what came to mind.

    I am a Ruby Nuby so I am always open to learning how to do things better.

  2. Berin Loritsch Says:
    October 12th, 2007 at 10:25 PM

    I did the repairs, and I made it even a little more clean than what you presented. Check this out:

    ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map| map.connect ‘tags/:tag_name’, :controller => ‘tags’, :action => ‘list’ end

    class TagsController < ApplicationController layout ‘site’ end

    def list
  @tag = params[:tag_name]
  @tagged_items = Project.find_tagged_with(
    :any => @tag )
end

    The only reason I had to have the “render ‘tags/list’” line in the method_missing call is because I couldn’t take advantage of the default behavior for rhtml selection. By using routes, I could.

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