Hi *,
I'm trying to develop a plugin, but I'm having some problems integrating it in
Rails.
The first problem is when I need to load the environment: I would like the
plugin to be installable in the classic way (under /vendor) and as a gem. Right
now I'm using something like
require File.join( File.dirname( __FILE__ ), '..', '..', '..', '..', 'config',
'environment' )
but of course I don't think it will work as a gem. How can I require the env to
have it work in both ways ?
The other problem I'm facing is when I try to have the plugin to include itself
inside ActionController (an example can be login_required of restful
authentication).
This is what I'm trying to do:
$:.unshift File.expand_path( File.dirname( __FILE__ ) )
require 'charon/class_methods'
module Charon
#some stuff
end
ActionController::Base.send :include, Charon::CharonClassMethods
and in charon/class_methods
module Charon
module CharonClassMethods
def self.included base
base.send :extend, Charon::CharonClassMethods::ClassMethods
end
module ClassMethods
def authentication_url
# implementation
end
end
end
end
What I don't understand where I should include the main application, how to
load rails and when (I can require ActionController in the first file but it
doesn't feel right ...) and what to put inside hte various initialization files.
If someone knows of a plugin with specs that I can copy I would be very glad.
It's not that I don't find them, but every plugin I find does things in a
different way, so it's not entirely clear which way is the best one.
TIA,
ngw
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