ActiveScaffold Actions Flow - activescaffold/active_scaffold GitHub Wiki

ActiveScaffold actions have a common flow:

• before_action <action>_authorized_filter, which calls link.security_method (usually <action>_authorized?) and raise ActiveScaffold::ActionNotAllowed if returns false.
• the action method usually calls do_<action>, which process the action, and respond_to_action(:<action>), which will call the corresponding response method for the requested format, as explained in Custom respond_to

When the action receives ID param, such as edit, update, delete or show, they load the record using find_if_allowed with the corresponding crud type (:create, :read, :update, :delete) to check the permissions. This method uses beginning_of_chain to build the query to load the record by id, which adds conditions to the query when the request has parameters for nested scaffold, so beginning_of_chain can be overrided to change the query used in list and any other action loading a record, it must return a ActiveRecord relation object.

That's the common flow, but some other methods are called from do_<action> in some actions:

• Create action flow
• Update action flow
• Update_column action flow
• Render_field action flow (refresh columns in forms)
• Edit_associated action flow (add row to subform)
• Show action flow
• Destroy action flow
• Search action flow
• List action flow