Inherited_resources is as close to GOD as you can get

I hate scaffolding. I truly do, with its repetitive actions and views. I recently found my savior, inherited_resources. This masterpiece allows you to rid of using ActionController directly, and DRY up that wet slop you call a controller. I’d love to give an in depth example, but really, his README is pretty damn intuitive. So, here is a small example:

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class Admin::PagesController < InheritedResources::Base
actions :all

def update
update! do |success, failure|
failure.html { redirect_to root_url }
end
end

protected
def resource
@page ||= end_of_association_chain.find_by_permalink(params[:id])
end

def collection
@pages ||= end_of_association_chain.paginate(:page => params[:page])
end
end

Normally, this will load the resource automatically, (or collection if I’m hitting #index) but I wanted to find_by_permalink and paginate with will_paginate. To give you an example of redirecting to a different location (or whatever you want, really), I specified the update action, can do any processing, then call update! instead of super, which you pass a block for success/failure. Along with giving me dry controllers, I get url helpers for the resources. resource_url, resource_url(obj), collection_url, and more.

This gives me a hardon. Now, if only Bill Mays was alive to spread the word.

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Inherited_resources is as close to GOD as you can get