Basic Rest Actions - Plugin for Rails

Simply adds typical REST actions to a controller.

Synopsis

# For a model named "Shoe" in a controller named Shoes
class ShoesController < ActionController::Base
  basic_rest_actions
end 

# For a model named "Boots" in a controller named Shoes
class ShoesController < ActionController::Base
  basic_rest_actions_for :boots
end 

# In your views, you can access the standard model instance variables via
# typically named variables:

# index.html.erb ...
<%= render :partial => 'shoe', :collection => @shoes %>

# show.html.erb ...
Brand: <%= @shoe.brand %>

The standard_respond_to method respects html, xml, and json. That list will grow as needed. You can override standard_respond_to and save_and_respond_to methods if you want to do something magical.

Installing

./script/plugin install git://github.com/coderifous/basic_rest_actions.git

Notes

There is no magic here, it just adds the typical REST action methods to your controller. Feel free to override one or two methods if you need something special. If you need to customize more, then you should consider not using this plugin at all.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2008 Jim Garvin

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