Well, just a follow up. I fixed my issue by extending
"ApplicationController". When I extend "ProjectsController" which is part
of the base app, everything blows up. Are we not allowed to extend code
from the base app in rails engine?
Todd
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Todd Nine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks James! That fixed part of my problem. I'm successfully getting my
> routes to work now. However, it seems that my controller is never called,
> and I'm now receiving a 404 error instead of the apps layout with "hello!"
> in the body as I expected. The application I'm creating a plugin for is
> redmine. It uses site layouts and the standard "<%= yield %>" code for the
> body that is rendered from the called controller/action/view. I simply have
> the following in my controller,and view, am I missing something else? I set
> the order action to be called when the projects/order url is called.
>
> routes.rb
>
> connect 'projects/order', :controller => 'project_rank', :action =>
> 'order'
>
>
>
> project_rank_controller.rb
>
> class ProjectRankController < ProjectsController
> def order
> print 'foobar';
> end
> end
>
> order.rhtml
>
>
> hello!
>
> Thanks,
> Todd
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:07 PM, James Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The routes.rb file in your plugin should only contain the inner
> > section of a normal application routes.rb file, I.e.
> >
> > connect '/path/:parameters', :controller => 'plugin_controller'
> >
> > Note that it doesn't even contain the 'map'.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2 Mar 2008, at 21:01, "Todd Nine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I am trying to create my own plugin, and I'm not having much
> > > luck. I have my structure set up with my controller, models and
> > > views. I've been able to successfully migrate my database, however
> > > I can't get my routes to work. I have the following basic directory
> > > structure
> > >
> > >
> > > plugins
> > > +- project_ranking
> > > +-controllers
> > > | +-project_rank_controller.rb
> > > +models
> > > | +-project_rank.rb
> > > +views
> > > | +-order.rhtml
> > > +routes.rb
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm trying to create a new route, and here is what I've defined in
> > > my routes.rb file.
> > >
> > > ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
> > >
> > > connect 'projects/order', :controller => 'project_rank`', :action
> > > => 'order'
> > >
> > > end
> > >
> > >
> > > Here is what I've added to the base project's routes.rb
> > >
> > > map.home '', :controller => 'welcome'
> > >
> > > #my new routing
> > > map.from_plugin :project_ranking
> > >
> > > ### Other routes
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > However, when I try to load the default projects page (not a
> > > plugin). I receive the following routing errors
> > >
> > > "no route found to match "/" with {:method=>:get}"
> > >
> > > If I comment out my map.from_plugin, everything works fine again.
> > >
> > > Any advice/help would be great.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Todd
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