How to be restful with url params

Question

I am having a problem with structuring rails application. Let's say that I have a Style model and I want to have listed 5 featured ones on my page root (/), and browse option where I can set listing from the oldest to the newest and vice versa.

http://example.com/ - five featured http://example.com/styles/newest - all newest http://example.com/styles/oldest - all oldest

How do I code the controller and routes? I've tried separate controllers for five featured and for all with if statement ( something like if params[:order] == 'oldest' then @styles = Style.oldest), but this doesn't seem to be either working or logical.

please add your existing code, controllers, models, routes. and an error if that is what led to the question. I'll think about it in the meantime. — OpenCoderX

vlain vlain · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-27T16:24:37

Add two custom routes. Routes.rb

resources :styles do
  collection do
    get :newest
    get :oldest
  end
end

root :to => 'styles#index'

StylesController.rb

def index
   @styles = Style.last(5)
end

def newest
   @styles = Style.order("created_at desc")
  ...
end

def oldest
  ...
end

Suggestion: Keep it simple.

How to be restful with url params

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