I use the show action to display specific forums and topics in rboard: http://github.com/radar/rboard .
As for the new comment form, you don't need to have all the 7 restful actions and if it makes more sense for your application to have a form for creating a new comment resource inside the page for a blog resource then that's fine imo. ----- Ryan Bigg Freelancer http://frozenplague.net On 18/12/2008, at 1:52 PM, Patrick Doyle wrote: > I am curious what folks do with the #show action (and its associated > view) in a RESTful application. > > How often is it used? > > It seems to me that, for the sorts of applications I can envision, > it probably wouldn't be used much at all. Everything I might want > to show can be displayed by the #index action. Is that true more or > less often than not? > > If there isn't anything to be gained by a #show action, what do > folks do (if anything) to disable it? > > I have seen a use for #show in the classic case of a blog, where the > index page shows the titles of each of the entries in the blog, but > the user must click on one of those titles to "show" the actual blog > post, but that brings up a related (and nearly identical) question... > > I can see the same issue with the #new action for a nested route. > Again in the classic blog application, the #show action for the post > would probably include a form for adding a comment, thus eliminating > the need for a #new action (and its view) . > > What do you folks with vastly more RoR experience than I do in these > situations? Is there a best practice? Is there a common practice? > > --wpd > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
