hackerbrief# Publishing

Publishing Module for Ruby on Rails Model’s.

• Publish Records with a Boolean and Datetime
• When making Edits and Publishing again, Datetime value is not updated

Install

Location of Module

~/app/models/concerns/publishing.rb

Migration to Model

$ rails g migration AddPublishingTo{MODEL} published:boolean published_at:datetime:index

Run Migration to Database

$ rails db:migrate

Usage

Model

include Publishing

Controller Params

params.require(:model).permit(:published, :published_at)

Queries

# All Models where published: true
Model.is_published
# All Models where published: false
Model.is_unpublished

Ordering

# published_at: :asc
Model.is_published.published_asc
# published_at: :desc
Model.is_published.published_desc

Controller Action

def publish
  @model = Model.find(params[:id])
  @model.publish_toggle
  # Response
end

View

= link_to @model.publish_link, model_publish_path(@model), method: :put

Routes

put '/model/:id/publish' => 'model#publish'

put '/model/:id/publish', to: 'model#publish'

put '/model/:id/publish', to: :publish, controller: 'models'