Looking up a Model via Radiant's find_by_url and displaying with tags.rb

class PlacePage < Page
  description "A page to display a single Place"
  
  def find_by_url(url, live = true, clean = false)
    url = clean_url(url) if clean
    if Place.parse_url(url)
      Page.find_by_title("single-place-template")
    else
      super
    end
  end
end

class Place < ActiveRecord::Base
  ...
  def self.parse_url(url)
    [$1, $2] if url =~ %r{\/places\/([^\/]*)\/?(.*)?}
  end
  
  def self.find_by_url(url)
    place_param, location_param = parse_url(url)
    Place.find_by_param(place_param)  # Haven't done anything with the location_param yet
  end
  ...
end

module PlacesTags
  ...
  tag 'place' do |tag|
    tag.locals.place = Place.find_by_url(@request.request_uri) if tag.locals.place.nil?
    tag.expand  
  end
  ...
end