Hi Martin,
I managed to make it work with a little trick. Instead of adding a
line into the dependencies.rb I inserted a require
"merb_resource_controller" into init.rb. I am sure this is not clean
but at least merb starts.
So I tried to rewrite the index action of my Recommendations
controller that had looked like this:
def index
find_opts = {}
find_opts[:user_id] = params[:user_id] unless params
[:user_id].nil?
@recommendations = Recommendation.all(find_opts)
display @recommendations
end
I expected the code to "magically" (thanks to your plugin) know what
@recommendations should be set to based on the URL. So it would set it
to all recommendations for "/recommendations" (1) and to the
recommendations of the user for "/users/1/recommendations" (2). So I
wrote that:
def index
@recommendations = Recommendation.all
display @recommendations
end
But that loaded all the recommendations in both of the above cases. I
also tried the following method since if I understood you correctly an
instance variable @user is set to the actual user in the (2) case:
def index
@recommendations = @user ? @user.recommendations :
Recommendation.all
display @recommendations
end
This did not work and after a very short debugging session I realized
that the @user variable is nil in both cases. (I included the
"controlling" calls in my controllers as you described). Did I
understand you correctly? Is that how it should work?
Here are the versions I am running (as you very well suggested on your
blog):
Darwin balint-erdis-macbook.local 9.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114)
mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.45
I am using 1.0.1 of all merb gems and 0.9.7 of all dm gems.
Once again, thank you for your help!
Balint
On Dec 3, 7:18 pm, "Martin Gamsjaeger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm,
>
> I must admit I haven't yet tried it inside the local gems dir, I only
> have it installed systemwide so far.
>
> One thing you could try is:
>
> inside irb:
> require "rubygems"
> require "merb_resource_controller"
>
> obviously this will only affect your systemwide installation and
> doesn't take into account the bundled gems,
> but it should show you a more precise error message! actually i think
> that once you have it working from systemwide gems, it should also
> work the bundled way.
>
> Out of interest, which version of merb/dm do you use?
>
> cheers
> snusnu
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:13 PM, baaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > My bad, thank you, I fixed that in the dependencies.rb file.
>
> > However it does not change a lot. I installed the gem both into the
> > merb app's gems folder (first) and then to the default gems
> > repository. I always get the same thing:
>
> > FATAL: The gem merb_resource_controller (>= 0, runtime), [] was not
> > found
> > FATAL: The file merb_resource_controller was not found
>
> > Do I have to require it somewhere else maybe?
>
> > Balint
>
> > On Dec 3, 6:50 pm, "Martin Gamsjaeger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Balint,
>
> >> The gem is named "merb_resource_controller" !
>
> >> So you should have:
>
> >> dependency "merb_resource_controller"
>
> >> instead of:
>
> >> dependency "merb_resourceful_controller"
>
> >> Let me know if this solves all your issues!
>
> >> cheers
> >> snusnu
>
> >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:15 PM, baaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> > Hey Martin,
>
> >> > That sounds great! I would love to give it a try but I could not
> >> > figure out how to install a plugin for Merb. I guess from this post
> >> > (http://blog.antarestrader.com/?p=70) that it might not happen so
> >> > smoothly. Standing in the root directory of my Merb app I did:
>
> >> > gem install snusnu-merb_resource_controller -i ./gems/
>
> >> > which installed your gem and all its dependencies into the 'gems'
> >> > directory. I added the following line to dependencies.rb below all the
> >> > others:
>
> >> > dependency "merb_resourceful_controller"
>
> >> > After that, when I started merb I received the following error:
>
> >> > FATAL: The gem merb_resourceful_controller (>= 0, runtime), [] was not
> >> > found
>
> >> > (I tried the same with "snusnu-merb_resourceful_controller" to no
> >> > avail.)
>
> >> > I also read Yehuda's guide (http://yehudakatz.com/2007/09/19/merb-
> >> > plugins-oh-yeah-theyre-pretty-frickin-cool-too/) -somewhat old- about
> >> > how to install a Merb-plugin and that seemed to be consistent with
> >> > what I do but I am surely missing soemthing.
>
> >> > If that's an easy one, could you point me to what I am doing wrong?
>
> >> > Thanks a lot!
> >> > Balint
>
> >> > On Dec 3, 2:34 am, "Martin Gamsjaeger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >> Hey Balint,
>
> >> >> Unless I misunderstand something
> >> >> important,http://github.com/snusnu/merb_resource_controller/tree/mastermaywell
> >> >> be an option?
>
> >> >> It basically knows how to CRUD under different nesting strategies
> >> >> (i.e. /recommendations vs. /users/1/recommendations).
>
> >> >> It will always load your resource properly scoped (i.e.
> >> >> Recommendation.all vs. @user.recommendations), without any before
> >> >> filter abusing.
>
> >> >> It will also setup all the instance variables you would expect to find
> >> >> for use in your views (i.e. @recommendations vs. @user AND
> >> >> @recommendations)
>
> >> >> You would use it like so:
>
> >> >> class Application < Merb::Controller
> >> >> extend Merb::ResourceController::Mixin::ClassMethods
> >> >> end
>
> >> >> class Users < Application
> >> >> controlling :users
> >> >> end
>
> >> >> class Recommendations < Application
> >> >> controlling :recommendations do |r|
> >> >> r.belongs_to :user
> >> >> end
> >> >> end
>
> >> >> Maybe this helps? Let me know if anything doesn't work the way you
> >> >> expect, if you try it out. Also don't be afraid to dive into the code,
> >> >> read it (and the specs), fork it, throw it away, whatever ... It
> >> >> currently does a nice job for me! Let's make it better by using it
> >> >> more :-)
>
> >> >> That said, I'm all for Justin's suggestions to separate the
> >> >> controllers when needed! If the only thing is avoiding nasty
> >> >> conditionals for scoping queries and redirecting though, this may be a
> >> >> reasonably easy alternative ...
>
> >> >> cheers
> >> >> snusnu
>
> >> >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Justin Reagor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >> > On Dec 2, 2008, at 1:47 PM, baaz wrote:
>
> >> >> > Clearly, the data I should show in these two cases is different, so
> >> >> > the controller code should handle this somehow.
> >> >> > The "create" action in the controller is even messier, redirecting to
> >> >> > different URLs depending on where we came from, etc. These dual-duty
> >> >> > controllers will be bloated and not nice.
>
> >> >> > I think you nailed it on the head yourself, sounds like two different
> >> >> > resources to me. Regardless of what the data model looks like on the
> >> >> > back
> >> >> > end, the exposed resources through the public API are probably going
> >> >> > to need
> >> >> > separate controllers.
> >> >> > Unless I'm misinterpreting what your trying to achieve here.
> >> >> > :: Justin Reagor
> >> >> > :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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