Help with rails rest standard

Question

I have a messages controller thats declared as a resource in my routes.

I want to be able to have a list view of received messages and a different view of sent messages.

But I dont want to break the rest pattern... What do you guys reccomend?

Answer 1

Keep it simple

/messages?view=sent

In your index method

def index
    @messages = case params[:view]
    when 'sent'
      Messages.sent
    when 'received'
      Messages.received
    else
      Messages.all
    end
end

See how the inherited_resources plugin handles Scoping.

Answer 2

in config/routes.rb:

map.resources :messages, :collection => { :sent => :get, :received => :get }

Then in your messages_controller.rb:

def received
  @messages = Message.to(current_user)
end

def sent
  @messages = Message.from(current_user)
end

In your message.rb define these two named scope methods.

Or as Tony Fontenot pointed out:

def received
  @messages = current_user.messages.to
end

def sent
  @messages = current_user.messages.from
end