On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 15:59, Jenna Fox <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem is basically this:
>
> Sometimes you want to reference static files, and other components of your
> site. I have a Gallery app mounted at http://creativepony.com/gallery/ and
> it causes me all sorts of trouble. Often times to reference static files I
> end up needing to use /../ in URLs inside of views and controllers, which
> webservers surprisingly correctly translate in to the wanted files, most of
> the time. Other times I want to reference other camping apps mounted in the
> same server instance via a rack URLMap.
>
> I know as I say this someone will paste a function I can redefine with some
> boggling ultracompressed camping code inside, where every variable is a
> letter - but I have work arounds which work. The trouble is that hacking
> about like this just isn't fun.
>
> In my opinion Camping needs in it's core static file serving
bin/camping should serve public/
> , catchall before/after methods for controllers,
module App
def service(*)
p :before
super
ensure
p :after
end
end
> and I have no idea how, but we need to
> fix the insanity which is the (self / arg) thing being applied to all src
> and href values in markaby templates. It's a great idea and I love it when
> it works, but it's so often a leaky abstraction for me, and when it leaks,
> there's no clear solution!
I agree, although I don't have any elegant solutions…
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