Common action for all the controllers

Rails
1

I am writing a small plugin for ruby on Rails. I faced a problem while
create a common action for all the controllers. I found a solution for
it, But i am not satisfied with the solution.

The solution that I got is :-

ActionController::Base.class_eval do
def common_action
render :text => “hai”
end

def action_init
self.class.action_methods.add “common_action”
end

before_filter :action_init

end

If you have any alternate solution, please provide.

2

maybe i’m completely confused about what you’re trying to do, but
application-controller says the following:

Filters added to this controller apply to all controllers in the

application.

Likewise, all the methods added will be available for all

controllers.

3

MaD wrote:

maybe i’m completely confused about what you’re trying to do, but
application-controller says the following:

Filters added to this controller apply to all controllers in the

application.

Likewise, all the methods added will be available for all

controllers.

From plugin librarys, we cann’t access the ApplicationController
class.

4

sorry, just checked it. i gotta be like this:

my_plugin.rb:

module MyPlugin
def self.included(base)
base.extend(ClassMethods)
end

module ClassMethods
  def my_action
    # ...
  end
end

end

irb(MyOtherController):001:0> MyOtherController.methods.include?
(‘my_action’)
=> true

5

If you have any alternate solution, please provide.

I didn’t go the plugin route in our application, but opted for a form of
“behavior by convention”

class GenericController < ApplicationController

here’s the standard index method

def index
blah blah blah
end

here’s a new common method for all controllers

def common_action
moo moo moo
end
end

class Project < GenericController

inherits the “common_action” action

and if need be (if Project truly needs behavior different from

the ‘standard’ we have for our app

def index
# non-standard behavior for this class
blah blah blah
end
end

6

that’s right, but you didn’t mention you were trying to write a
plugin.
in that case try to write it like this:

my_plugin.rb:

module MyPlugin
def my_action
end
end

init.rb:

ActionController::Base.send :include, MyPlugin

hope i didn’t forget anything.