Forum: Rails Engines development Re: Engine installer

Hi there,
I'm running into a spot of bother with an engine I'm developing.  I want
the table names I'm using to be configurable by the end user, such that
nothing is hard coded.  Having looked through user_engine, I see it
makes use of things like: UserEngine.config(:some_table).  I'm trying
todo the same thing, like in the following:

 has_many :mac_user_grants, :class_name => 
MacEngine.config(:mac_user_grant_table)

But when i come to use the class this is in I get an error like the
following:

NameError: undefined local variable or method `mac_user_grants' for 
MacAcl:Class

in my mac_engine.rb file, I have the following:

module MacEngine
	if ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names
		config :mac_user_grant_table, "mac_user_grants"
	else
		config :mac_user_grant_table, "mac_user_grant"
	end
end

I'm guessing the problem lies with how/what
MacEngine.config(:mac_user_grant_table) returns, and how it gets
interpreted.

I've tried the following to no avail:

:class_name => "#{MacEngine.config(:mac_user_grant_table)}"
:class_name => MacEngine.config(:mac_user_grant_table).to_s

So my question is, and its probably more of a general Ruby question than
an engines one, what is :class_name expecting, and how can i provide it?


-v

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 Heisenberg may have slept here

Well, I'll respond here then.

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/As...

If you look at some of the examples that use the :class_name
parameter, it does want strings, but of the actual *class* name, not
the table name. Luckily Rails rocks and provides a method on string to
convert a table name to a class name:

:class_name => MacEngine.config(:mac_user_grant_table).classify

I think that should do it.

-jeff

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> I think that should do it.

Ahha! perfect, appologies for not RTFM'in

Just before you responded i tried:
"MacEngine::" + MacEngine.config(:mac_user_grant_table).to_s.camelize

and that also failed to work, I guess for exactly the same reason.

> -jeff
> 
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It's a Rails question, rather than a Ruby one, but here goes.

The :class_name argument is expecting something of the form
"MacUserGrants", and that might not be the same as your table name
(which is probably "mac_user_grants", as you set it in the config).
It's expecting a string representation of an actual Ruby class (and a
subclass of ActiveRecord::Base in this particular case).

I think you're more likely to want to do something like this:

class Something < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :mac_user_grants
end

class MacUserGrants < ActiveRecord::Base
  set_table_name MacEngine.config(:mac_user_grants_table)
end

... the table name is only really relevant in the class which stores
data in that table in this case.

- james

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