Comments on: Integrating Design Drafts Into Your Rails App

By: Anthony Navarre

Anthony Navarre — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:23:18 +0000

Ah, apologies if my previous post just reiterates info that commenter #2 posted – the link in that comment currently goes to a 404 error. Even if my comment is redundant for the author, hopefully the code is useful to a few readers, given the 404.

By: Anthony Navarre

Anthony Navarre — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:17:55 +0000

I absolutely *love* this approach … however, if you’re running Rails version 2, wouldn’t this be a bit more elegant with a custom mime-type?

First setup the mime-type:

# config/initializers/mime_types.rb
Mime::Type.register_alias “text/html”, :wire

Then modify your controllers as needed

# app/controllers/people_controller.rb
# GET /people/1
# GET /people/1.wire
def show
@person = Person.find params[:id]

respond_to do |wants|
wants.html # renders app/views/people/show.html.erb
wants.wire # renders app/views/people/show.wire.erb
end
end

You could even do any of the “wants” lines with a block if you require special logic. For instance, if you don’t want to mess with the database for your first few iterations:

# app/controllers/people_controller.rb
# GET /people/1
# GET /people/1.wire
def show
respond_to do |wants|
wants.html do
@person = Person.find params[:id]
end
wants.wire # renders app/views/people/show.wire.erb
end
end

Thoughts?

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By: Łukasz Adamczak

Łukasz Adamczak — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:07:52 +0000

Thanks for the idea!
The routes.rb solution didn’t work for me (nested controllers).

You can even simplify it – render the template directly from the before_filter – it will halt the filter chain.

And you can use params[:format] to extract the format.

By: Noel Rappin

Noel Rappin — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:53:00 +0000

1. You probably could do most or all of this with a route, but I find that hard to debug when things go wrong.

2. Yes, that’s very similar — I wanted to be able to manage my solution without having to touch any respond_to block in the code, but I like the way yours looks too.

Noel

By: David Mathers

David Mathers — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:54:28 +0000

Similar thoughts?

http://locomotivation.com/2008/06/28/redesign-your-site-in-place-using-rails-custom-mime-types

By: Andy Amiri

Andy Amiri — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:06:03 +0000

I’m probably missing something but couldn’t you just use a route namespace to accomplish the same thing? Maybe that doesn’t give you enough control?