How to get around a reserved word

[Walter Lee Davis]

I need to use the model name 'Action' (which will not work in Rails 4.0.3) for business reasons (it's a product name). If I name the actual model something else, is there any way to (maybe with mod_rewrite) make the URL appear the way I need it to while keeping everything working in Rails?

I've tried using the controller flag in routes.rb to try to fix this, and it seems to work, but causes a lot of problems elsewhere -- basically anything where I use the automatic URLs, like

link_to 'Link text', @instance_var

needs to be rewritten to use the long-hand route helper, like this

link_to 'Link text', action_path(@instance_var)

What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance,

Walter

[Dheeraj Kumar]

Namespace it? Product::Action for the model, and product_action_path(@instance_var) in the routes.

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[Frederick Cheung]

On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 7:02:34 AM UTC, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

I need to use the model name 'Action' (which will not work in Rails 4.0.3) for business reasons (it's a product name). If I name the actual model something else, is there any way to (maybe with mod_rewrite) make the URL appear the way I need it to while keeping everything working in Rails?

I've tried using the controller flag in routes.rb to try to fix this, and it seems to work, but causes a lot of problems elsewhere -- basically anything where I use the automatic URLs, like

        link_to 'Link text', @instance_var

resources :foos, :as => :action ?

Fred

 

[Walter Lee Davis]

Thanks, I tried that first, and couldn't get the forms to work. What did work was this (although it's quite a hack, routes-wise):

resources :fw_actions :as => :action
resources :fw_actions

The second line was required in order to support POST and PUT and DELETE, so I may go through these and put :only => [:post, :put, :delete] on the latter, and :without on the former.

I couldn't find any way to have form_for work in the absence of that duplicate set of routes.

Walter

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[Jim Ruther Nill]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote:

On Mar 5, 2014, at 6:40 AM, Frederick Cheung wrote:

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> On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 7:02:34 AM UTC, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
> I need to use the model name 'Action' (which will not work in Rails 4.0.3) for business reasons (it's a product name). If I name the actual model something else, is there any way to (maybe with mod_rewrite) make the URL appear the way I need it to while keeping everything working in Rails?
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> I've tried using the controller flag in routes.rb to try to fix this, and it seems to work, but causes a lot of problems elsewhere -- basically anything where I use the automatic URLs, like
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>         link_to 'Link text', @instance_var
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> resources :foos, :as => :action ?
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Thanks, I tried that first, and couldn't get the forms to work. What did work was this (although it's quite a hack, routes-wise):

        resources :fw_actions :as => :action
        resources :fw_actions

The second line was required in order to support POST and PUT and DELETE, so I may go through these and put :only => [:post, :put, :delete] on the latter, and :without on the former.

I couldn't find any way to have form_for work in the absence of that duplicate set of routes.

You can remove the second line.  In order for form_for to work, you need to manually set

the url instead of just form_for @instance_var.  I've tested this out using the following routes

resources :pages, as: :foo

which gave the following routes

  foo_index GET    /pages(.:format)           pages#index

            POST   /pages(.:format)           pages#create

    new_foo GET    /pages/new(.:format)       pages#new

   edit_foo GET    /pages/:id/edit(.:format)  pages#edit

        foo GET    /pages/:id(.:format)       pages#show

            PATCH  /pages/:id(.:format)       pages#update

            PUT    /pages/:id(.:format)       pages#update

            DELETE /pages/:id(.:format)       pages#destroy

Try the following for your forms

# new action

form_for @instance_var, url: foo_index_path, html: { method: :post }

# edit

form_for @instance_var, url: foo_path(@instance_var), html: { method: :put }

 

Walter

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