How can I override an engine action with nothingness? For instance, I
want
all my users to register themselves, so I want to remove the ability to
create a new user.
I tried
def new
end
as well as
undef new
in my user_controller.rb, but in each case, Rails still tried to render
the
engine’s new template, with some errors presumably due to the
now-improperly-set up instance variable.
In this case, I’m happy creating a fake new action that redirects to
:action => ‘home’, but it seems like a general need people might have
with
engines.
Jay L.
On Feb 15, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Jay L. wrote:
:action => ‘home’, but it seems like a general need people might
have with
engines.
Jay L.
I think this is actually an issue with rails itself–whether or not
you have a method in your controller, if the view file (.rhtml file)
exists, it will be rendered when called upon.
I would try this instead:
def new
render :action => ‘home’
end
Duane J.
(canadaduane)
http://blog.inquirylabs.com/
Might this be due to the fact that Rails will render a view even if
there’s no corresponding controller action behind it? I.E. even though
you are removing the ‘new’ action, because the ‘new.rhtml’ file is
present and locatable, Rails will presume that you want to render
that.
I’m not sure that I can see a way around this at the moment, since the
idea of Engines is that you don’t need to mess with the internals. As
you say, you can always fake out the action to send the user somewhere
else.
If anyone has any better ideas, let us know…
On 2/15/06, Jay L. [email protected] wrote:
Jay L.
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:12:57 +0000, James A. wrote:
Might this be due to the fact that Rails will render a view even if
there’s no corresponding controller action behind it? I.E. even though
you are removing the ‘new’ action, because the ‘new.rhtml’ file is
present and locatable, Rails will presume that you want to render
that.
Ah! Yes, that’s exactly what it is. I never realized that feature of
Rails (but it’s perfect, as I was just about to create a bunch of
pseudo-actions for some static pages, and now I don’t have to).
So no, I can’t think of a way around it either - if new.rhtml exists in
the
search path, then it exists, and there’s no way to negate that. For my
current case, re-rendering a different page is fine; I guess if it ever
becomes a real problem, I’ll just think harder.
Jay
