Routing problem

Rails Engines
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Hi,

I’m developing an engine with a controller, and I have problems to
configure the routing.
The engine is located in vendor/plugins/web_file_attachment. Under
that directory:

  • the controller is in app/controllers/web_file_attachments.rb

  • I’m trying with this controller classes:
    class WebFileAttachment::WebFileAttachmentsController <
    ApplicationController
    and I have tried with equivalent configurations for class
    WebFileAttachmentsController < ApplicationController

  • in routes.rb, I have this (following the docs stating that the
    plugin name is the first part of the controller name):
    connect “/app/web_file_attachments/:action/:id”, :controller =>
    “web_file_attachment/web_file_attachments”

And in the main rails config/routes.rb I have this:
map.from_plugin :web_file_attachment

I still end with this error:
uninitialized constant
WebFileAttachment::WebFileAttachmentsController

though this is exactly how I name my controller.
If I try
require ‘web_file_attachments’
in init.rb, I get an error with ApplicationController not defined.

What am I doing wrong here?
I’m using rails 2.1.1 and engines 2.0.0

Thanks in advance.

Raphaël

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On 30 Oct 2008, at 09:33, Raphael B. wrote:

and I have tried with equivalent configurations for class
I still end with this error:
uninitialized constant
WebFileAttachment::WebFileAttachmentsController

though this is exactly how I name my controller.
If I try
require ‘web_file_attachments’
in init.rb, I get an error with ApplicationController not defined.

What am I doing wrong here?
I’m using rails 2.1.1 and engines 2.0.0

The most obvious things are:

  • if your controller is
    WebFileAttachment::WebFileAttachmentsController, then it should be in
    a file called vendor/plugins/web_file_attachment/app/controllers/
    web_file_attachment/web_file_attachments_controller.rb
  • if your controller is WebFileAttachmentsController, then it should
    be in a file called vendor/plugins/web_file_attachment/app/controllers/
    web_file_attachments_controller.rb

Essentially - the name of the plugin isn’t involved in namespacing the
controller, and the file needs to end with _controller.rb. Hopefully
that should get you back on track.

Thanks,

James

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:50 AM, James A. [email protected] wrote:

class WebFileAttachment::WebFileAttachmentsController <
map.from_plugin :web_file_attachment
I’m using rails 2.1.1 and engines 2.0.0

The most obvious things are:

  • if your controller is WebFileAttachment::WebFileAttachmentsController,
    then it should be in a file called
    vendor/plugins/web_file_attachment/app/controllers/web_file_attachment/web_file_attachments_controller.rb

Maybe the documentation could be a bit clearer? The example at
http://api.rails-engines.org/classes/Engines/RailsExtensions/Routing.html
puts ‘my_pluign/’ in the controller route.

  • if your controller is WebFileAttachmentsController, then it should be in
    a file called
    vendor/plugins/web_file_attachment/app/controllers/web_file_attachments_controller.rb

yes, you’re right, I misnamed the controller file. Thanks for pointing
it out!

Raph

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On 30 Oct 2008, at 11:15, Raphael B. wrote:

Maybe the documentation could be a bit clearer? The example at
http://api.rails-engines.org/classes/Engines/RailsExtensions/Routing.html
puts ‘my_pluign/’ in the controller route.

You’re absolutely right - that is confusing. I’ll change that to make
it clearer.

Thanks!

James