This weekend, while working on upgrading murfie.com to Rails 3, I found a situation requiring url_for()… except, I wasn’t using it with an ActiveRecord model :/
Yehunda Katz and ActiveModel to the rescue! Rails 3’s ActiveModel is a great way to mix ActiveRecord functionality into any object. Yehunda’s article covers validations and serialization, but glosses over ActiveModel::Naming.
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Adding this module to a class means that url_for(Model) just works! Of course you need to have routes setup, but url_for will automatically construct the named routes if they match up with the model name.
Under the hood, rails is calling model_name on the class of the object passed into url_for(). Model.model_name returns a string, but is actually an instance of ActiveModel::Name, which is then used by url_for() to generate the named route for the object.
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