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gerky
gerky

Reputation: 6415

Rails Controllers - Adding a Custom Action

I have an Article resource and have defined resourceful routes for it. I want to create a simple page that shows the articles of the current user. I am aware that it is possible to do so by adding another action, for example 'search' to articles controller which will contain the custom code that searches for articles that have the same user id. And for the routes:

resources :articles do
  get 'search'
end

But I'm not sure if adding a custom action is a good idea in this case. I'm thinking I can still use the index action (which shows all articles) and pass some sort of parameter from the url so that it can distinguish if the user wants to see all articles or just his own. But I'm not sure exactly how this can be done. Any help would be great. Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 717

Answers (2)

gabrielhilal
gabrielhilal

Reputation: 10769

you don't need to create a new action/view for it.

You can add a small form to filter all articles or only my articles, for example:

<%= form_tag articles_path, method: :get do %> 
    <%= radio_button_tag :search, "all", :checked => true %>
    <%= label_tag :all %><br />

    <%= radio_button_tag :search, "my" %>
    <%= label_tag :my_articles %><br />

    <%= submit_tag "filter", name: nil %>
<% end %>

than in your controller:

def index
  if params[:search] == 'my'
    @articles = current_user.articles
  else
    @articles = Article.all
end

Upvotes: 1

davidrac
davidrac

Reputation: 10738

You can use the query string to pass parameters. see here So you can pass something like .../articles?user_id=2 In your controller, just change the behavior according to the user_id parameter.

Upvotes: 1

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