# Import\_export patches for user errors (and extensions) **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [September 5, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/import-export-patches-for-user-errors-and-extensions/113862 "2007-09-05T18:28:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giovanni_I)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/import-export-patches-for-user-errors-and-extensions/113862/1 "2007-09-05T18:28:25Z")
Since this is the second time this week someone had problems with the import\_export extension, I will post my patches. Use them at your own risk, they have been tested only by Andrea F., Will G. and me. I won’t post them to the dev site until I have the time to really look into them and clean 'em up. Good luck, Giovanni 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giovanni_I)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 5:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/import-export-patches-for-user-errors-and-extensions/113862/2 "2007-09-06T05:24:49Z")
After closer inspection, it appears that the applied patches are causing my page\_attachments to be neither exported nor imported (probably because they aren’t exported!). Giovanni, since you added a priority field to the extension\_meta table, must I now assign a priority to each extension in order for them to be processed at all? – Will G. Find out why this email is 5 sentences or less at [http://five.sentec.es/](http://five.sentec.es/) ---
**Author:** ![Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giovanni_I)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 8:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/import-export-patches-for-user-errors-and-extensions/113862/3 "2007-09-06T08:32:01Z")
Disregard this. I needed to alter vendor/extensions/import\_export/lib/exporter.rb, line 3, to specify which models to export. After adding PageAttachment to the end of the list (there has _got_ to be a better, more Rails-esque way to do this), my page\_attachment records are now exported. I have yet to try importing with this fix in place, though. Will G. wrote: > After closer inspection, it appears that the applied patches are causing > my page\_attachments to be neither exported nor imported (probably > because they aren’t exported!). > > Giovanni, since you added a priority field to the extension\_meta table, > must I now assign a priority to each extension in order for them to be > processed at all? – Will G. Find out why this email is 5 sentences or less at [http://five.sentec.es/](http://five.sentec.es/) ---
**Author:** ![Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giovanni_I)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 9:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/import-export-patches-for-user-errors-and-extensions/113862/4 "2007-09-06T09:11:06Z")
Import-Export exports only the default rails models. I didn’t change that because the production version of my app has already lots of data stored in the extensions tables and I don’t want to touch it when I update (importing new version of pages, snippets and stuff). 2007/9/6, Will G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giovanni_I)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/import-export-patches-for-user-errors-and-extensions/113862/5 "2007-09-06T16:12:12Z")
IIRC, I left open a hook to add your own models. I didn’t put this hook in page\_attachments because I couldn’t be sure anyone was going to use import\_export. Also consider that import\_export is half-baked, too. I’m of a mind to rewrite it as Rake tasks with dependencies. Sean ---
**Author:** ![Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giovanni_I)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/import-export-patches-for-user-errors-and-extensions/113862/6 "2007-09-06T16:19:13Z")
2007/9/6, Sean C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > I’m of a mind to rewrite it as Rake tasks with dependencies. That would be great Sean. ---
**Author:** ![Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Giovanni\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giovanni_I)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/import-export-patches-for-user-errors-and-extensions/113862/7 "2007-09-07T01:29:35Z")
Agreed! Sean, please be of a full mind! 😉 I’d be happy to be a guinea pig. Giovanni I. wrote: > 2007/9/6, Sean C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > > I’m of a mind to rewrite it as Rake tasks with dependencies. > > That would be great Sean. – Will G. Find out why this email is 5 sentences or less at [http://five.sentec.es/](http://five.sentec.es/)