Deprecation Notice

Please use Rails 3's new Responder syntax (I do), or Decent Exposure which has many of same funcitonality of exposure and a much larger community.

exposure

Exposure is a Rails is a controller abstraction layer like resource_this, make_resourceful and resource_controller with the same goal: exposing resources at the controller level with fewer headaches.

class PostsController < ApplicationController
  expose :posts
end

Customization:

Exposure has a number of customization points:

Callbacks

Exposure uses ActiveSupport's callback system and has the following callbacks:

• before_find
• after_find
• after_find_on_failure
• after_find_on_success
• before_assign
• after_assign
• before_save
• after_save
• after_save_on_failure
• after_save_on_success
• before_create
• after_create_on_failure
• after_create_on_success
• before_update
• after_update_on_failure
• after_update_on_success
• before_destroy
• after_destroy_on_success
• before_response
• before_response_on_success
• before_response_on_failure

You can access these directly

class PostsController
  before_find :do_somethng_special, :if => {|c| c.action_name == 'show' }
  private
    def do_somethng_special
      ...
    end
end

or through a specialty syntax

class PostsController
  before :find, :do_somethng_special, :only => [:create]
  private
    def do_somethng_special
      ...
    end
end

Finders

Flashers

Responders

INSTALL:

$ sudo gem install exposure

# environment.rb
gem.exposure

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009 Trek Glowacki

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