golden_retriever

Golden Retriever automatically retrieves resources from the database for actions/controllers that follow rest conventions.

Instructions:

script/plugin git://github.com/DouglasMeyer/golden_retriever.git And add "require GoldenRetriever" to the controllers for which you want your resources automatically retrieved, and the resoures will be loaded under their names. You can also define "resource_find_method" to specify a different find method (like :find_by_name).

Example:

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map| map.resources :users, :has_many => :posts end

class PostsController < ApplicationController require GoldenRetriever

In this controller, you'll have access to @user, which is

the same as: User.find(params[:user_id])

def index # @posts will be the same as @user.posts render :json => @posts end def show # @post will be the same as @user.posts.find(params[:id]) render :json => @post end def new # @post will be the same as @user.posts.build render :json => @post end

private

def resource_find_method(model_name) model_name == 'post' ? :find_by_name : :find end

end