Biodegradable Geek

In a controller, you’ll commonly have a method that requires you have an instance variable containing the object you’re working with. An example would be the show, edit, update, and destroy methods (REST).

To eliminate having find(params[:id]) in multiple methods, you can use before_filter, like this:

class Admin::PostsController < Admin::ApplicationController
  before_filter :find_post, :only => [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]
  rescue_from(ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound) { |e| render :text => "
Post not found

" }

  def index
    @posts = Post.find(:all)
  end

  def show
  end

  def new
    @post = Post.new
  end

  def create
    @post = Post.new
  end

  def edit
  end

  def update
  end

  def destroy
  end

protected
  def find_post(id = params[:id])
    @post = Post.find(id)
  end
end

(Thanks Jon)
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