refactoring the frontend to use more partials, separate out the categories into it's own controller, namespace the blog into it's own folder and create a base blog controller for handling common front end tasks

3 files changed, 25 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/app/controllers/blog/categories_controller.rb b/app/controllers/blog/categories_controller.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..71ceec1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/blog/categories_controller.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+class Blog::CategoriesController < BlogController
+
+  def show
+    @category = BlogCategory.find(params[:id])
+  end
+  
+end
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diff --git a/app/controllers/blog_posts_controller.rb b/app/controllers/blog/posts_controller.rb
index 73b9dfa..8a10604 100644
--- a/app/controllers/blog_posts_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/blog/posts_controller.rb
@@ -1,15 +1,8 @@
-class BlogPostsController < ApplicationController
+class Blog::PostsController < BlogController
 
-  before_filter :find_all_blog_posts, :find_all_blog_categories
-  before_filter :find_page
+  before_filter :find_all_blog_posts
   before_filter :find_blog_post, :only => [:show, :comment]
 
-  def index
-    # you can use meta fields from your model instead (e.g. browser_title)
-    # by swapping @page for @blogs in the line below:
-    present(@page)
-  end
-
   def show
     @blog_comment = BlogComment.new
 
@@ -40,23 +33,7 @@ protected
   end
 
   def find_all_blog_posts
-    unless params[:category_id].present?
-      @blog_posts = BlogPost.live
-    else
-      if (category = BlogCategory.find(params[:category_id])).present?
-        @blog_posts = category.posts
-      else
-        error_404
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-  def find_all_blog_categories
-    @blog_categories = BlogCategory.all
-  end
-
-  def find_page
-    @page = Page.find_by_link_url("/blog")
+    @blog_posts = BlogPost.live
   end
 
 end
diff --git a/app/controllers/blog_controller.rb b/app/controllers/blog_controller.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0931cbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/blog_controller.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+class BlogController < ApplicationController
+  
+  before_filter :find_page, :find_all_blog_categories
+
+protected
+
+  def find_page
+    @page = Page.find_by_link_url("/blog")
+  end
+
+  def find_all_blog_categories
+    @blog_categories = BlogCategory.all
+  end
+
+end
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