basilinc/madmen

A Mongoose/Express admin section to manage mongoose resources

madmen's Issues

Extend for all CRUD actions

The following controller actions should be written

• new
• create
• show
• edit
• update
• delete

How to write a generic aciton

The controller actions are generic so we only need to write a single set regardless of how many resources Madmen is managing. To achieve this we bind the model name as the first parameter to the controller actions like so:

app.get('/index', controller.index.bind(null,'User'));

We can then use that model name to dynamically grab the mongoose model to perform the correct actions:

var index = function(modelName, req, res) {
  var resource = mongoose.model(modelName);
  // Other stuff here
}

New/Edit form

In order to make this as generic as possible we will be using JSON to create new/update existing documents. All we need in the form for now is a textarea.
Once you get the basic controller actions working I will help you setup the actual create/update functionality.

Things to note

You can use OctoAvenger as an example for the inner workings of the controller actions but use the controller.index currently in madmen as a reference for defining the parameters and how to get the mongoose model.

The views should just be super super basic for now, similar to index.jade. We will extend the views and make it look awesome as soon as we get the basic functionality in and can use it to manage resources.