You did grasp the concept of my application amazingly well, only that the only possible ways to "edit" a dict is to add and remove idioms (would you see this as editing the dictionary, or as manipulating the Idiom class?).
The reason why I did not follow the CRUD way - and maybe this I was mislead here - was the following: When starting the design, I started with a concept of the screens the user is going to see. The initial screen will present an entry form for the name of the dictionary, the user name, buttons for creating and opening a dictionary, and - for the creation case - an entry field denoting a dictionary type (think about it as the "language" for the dictionary, but the concept is more general). After clicking one of the buttons, a new screen appears from where the user can click various buttons - exporting the dictionary, start one of three predefined training types, manually adding idioms to the dictionary (but on this screen no possibility of deleting or editing idioms, nor for the deletion of the dictionary). My idea was that the logic for each web page should correspond to one controller method. In this case, I have used two different controllers: For the entry page I have a login_controller (because I would like to add password authentification later on), and for the second form I have a dict_controller. Similarily, I am planning a training_controller for doing the idiom training, and another controller (maybe idiom_controller) for adding, deleting and editing individual idioms. Maybe this mapping "web page" to "controller" is, from the onset, bad design? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/c2408d1a952170480088754d28d37f13%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
