RestfulController

This is a very bare bones abstraction of the RESTful actions for a Rails resource controller. Nothing fancy. Supports pagination (for the index action, mainly) and custom Models (that don’t match the typical pattern – think of a SignupsController using a User model).

class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
  restful_controller :model => Post, :pagination => true
end

Notes:

• by default the model will be the singularized version of the controller (ArticlesController => Article)
• automatically sets the expected instance variable for your views depending on the action being rendered. For articles example, the “show” action would setup an @article variable, while the “index” action would setup an @articles variable, as you’d expect)
• “supports pagination” means a #paginated(params[:page]) method will be called on your model (you may need to add that)

Nothing New

I’m aware that there are several solutions to this problem, but I didn’t want/need all of the features from that of resource_controller and friends. This plugin is very straight-forward and is primarily used for a few applications at work.

License

Copyright © 2009 Ryan Heath, released under the MIT license