Hi Dave, >From your questions I'd probably recommend that you spend a bit of time reading through Rails tutorials, or possibly buying one of the books that are available/upcoming.
Aspects of Rails development such as the database.yml file, or routes, are fairly central to setting up your application (rather than something specific to using an engine or plugin), so it would almost certainly be worth your time getting a solid grounding in Rails before looking at using relatively more 'advanced' features like plugins or engines. FWIW, there's nothing special that you need to do to the database.yml file, or the routes file, in order to use the login engine. The prompts in the README will make more sense if you've done a bit of basic Rails development. The error that you are getting seems to imply that you might've forgotten the Engines.start :login line in environment.rb. james On 6/27/06, David Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I am just getting started with Rails and am trying to take advantage > of the work that's already been done for the login engine. I've had > pretty good luck following along with the documentation and the > quicktime movie, but there is one spot where it looks like I need even > more hand-holding than has already been provided. > > > Setup your Rails application > > > > Edit your database.yml, most importantly! You might > > also want to move public/index.html out of the way, > > and set up some default routes in config/routes.rb. > > Can someone explain a bit about this paragraph? What might I need to to > to my database.yml? I hear it's important, but I'm not clear at all what > I should do to it. > > And my main question is about the last part about setting up some > default routes. This is where my ignorance of how an engine works really > bites me. It looks like I have gotten things almost working - when I try > to pull up an existing page, the login engine is trying to send me to > the login form, and I assume I need to do something in routes.rb. What > would a typical alteration/addition to routes.rb look like? > > Of course, that might not be my problem at all. After being sent to > http://127.0.0.1:3000/user/login, the error I get is: > > > NameError > > > > uninitialized constant UserController > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > engine-users mailing list > engine-users@lists.rails-engines.org > http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org > -- * J * ~ _______________________________________________ engine-users mailing list engine-users@lists.rails-engines.org http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org
