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Decent Exposure

#259 Decent Exposure

Mar 28, 2011 | 9 minutes | Views, Controllers, Plugins
The decent_exposure gem makes it convenient to share controller data with the view through methods instead of instance variables.
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articles_controller.rb 
expose(:articles) { Article.order(:name) }
expose(:article)

# or without decent_exposure

def articles
  @articles ||= Article.order(:name)
end
helper_method :articles

def article
  @article ||= params[:id] ? Article.find(params[:id]) : Article.new(params[:article])
end
helper_method :article
comments_controller.rb 
expose(:article)
expose(:comments) { article.comments }
expose(:comment)