Create application for two different profiles

Question

I am working on an application that has two different types of profiles and I want to find the best way to structure my application being that:

1. All Urls in my app will start with one of the two profiles. Eg: (root/person_physical, root/person_legal);

2. Many actions/screens will be shared by the two profiles, and some of these screens will have different behaviors for each profile, but others will not have differences. (Ex.: root/profile/about, root/profile/contact_form);

3. I will have files that will be rendered on all screens of one profile, and other files in the other profile. (Ex.: personal header_physical, personal header_legal);

Does anyone have any tips to indicate?

Answer 1

Let’s say you have it on your table usuarios a column called tipo_pessoa, that accepts the values F or J.

If you want to restrict all actions of a controller to one or another type of person, do so:

class MeuController < ApplicationController
  before_action :somente_pessoa_fisica

  private
    def somente_pessoa_fisica
      redirect_to root_path if current_usuario.tipo_pessoa === "J"
    end
end

The above event will redirect the user to root if it is of the legal person type.

If you want you can restrict the check to only or except some methods:

before_action :somente_pessoa_juridica, only: [:new, :create] # apenas new e create
before_action :somente_pessoa_juridica, except: [:new, :create] # exceto new e create

---

For the routes, what you seek is the namespace:

namespace :pessoa_fisica do
  resources :foo
end

namespace :pessoa_juridica do
  resources :bar
end

But if a controller should be accessible in more than one namespace, I don’t know if it will work. I’d rather not use, I think it’s best to just filter with before_action as shown above.