I am amazed at the flexibility of Rails. I needed a way to dispatch between the portal and a tool and communicate which “context” \/ “site” the tool is supposed to operate in.
\nIn Sakai we have complex stuff like a request filter and obtuse code buried in portal to accomplish this.
\nIn Ruby it is trivial…<\/p>\n
\nIn my portal’s view – I add this line:
\n<%= link_to_remote 'Users', :update=> ‘main-content’,
\n:url => { :action => ‘ajaxstart’, :controller=>’users’,
\n:div => ‘main-content’, :context => 1} %>
\nThe context is the site id.
\nIn my routes.rb file it looks like this:
\nmap.connect ”, :controller => “portal”
\nmap.connect ‘:controller\/:context\/:div\/:action\/:id.:format’
\nmap.connect ‘:controller\/:context\/:div\/:action\/:id’
\nmap.connect ‘:controller\/:context\/:div\/:action’
\nmap.connect ‘:controller\/:action\/:id’
\nmap.connect ‘:controller\/:action’
\nRails adds the context to the URL when the portal generates the link URL and when the application makes a url using the url_for helper – the context (and div) are pre-pended to every URL – with zero changes to the application.
\nthe urls look like
\n\/controller\/site-id\/div-name\/action
\nBoth the URL made by the portal and the url made by views in the tool.
\nAbstraction abstraction abstraction – lots of flexibiltiy – lots of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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