Re: Problem with RoR's controller getting too large

I share Vlad's frustration and generally agree that Rails questions
should go to the Rails list. Just for the heck of it, though, there
are a couple interesting Rails-world blogs addressing this problem:

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/10/18/skinny-controller-fat-model
http://blog.jayfields.com/2007/03/rails-presenter-pattern.html
http://blog.jayfields.com/2006/09/rails-model-view-controller-presenter.html
http://www.therailsway.com

For what it's worth.

On 4/30/07, Vlad GALU <dudu <at> dudu.ro> wrote:
> On 4/30/07, shurain <shurain <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > Let's assume that there are two models Post and Comment. If we have a
> > controller dealing with both of these models, it wouldn't take long
> > before the controller grows too big to maintain. As far as I
> > understand, this happens because a controller tries to handle all the
> > actions allowed by the user. If I change the perspective and create a
> > controller per model the controller getting too large is fixed but I
> > have another problem.
> >
> > I don't see any good way of accessing multiple controllers (or models)
> > in one view. There are times when I have to see an instance of a Post
> > "AND" the comments which belongs to the post. I've heard that it can
> > be solved by using components but that has been deprecated and I've
> > heard that there are some issues which discourage its use. Using
> > application.rb doesn't really help because it still makes the
> > controller grow large. Is there any clean solution to this?
>
>
>    I don't want to sound rude, but why don't you ask this on the RoR
> mailinglist? I'm sure they know more on this matter than the people
> that simply use Ruby for other tasks.
>
>
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