On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:50 AM, James Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 30 Oct 2008, at 09:33, Raphael Bauduin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm developing an engine with a controller, and I have problems to
>> configure the routing.
>> The engine is located in vendor/plugins/web_file_attachment. Under
>> that directory:
>> - the controller is in app/controllers/web_file_attachments.rb
>> - I'm trying  with this controller classes:
>>  class WebFileAttachment::WebFileAttachmentsController <
>> ApplicationController
>>  and I have tried with equivalent configurations for class
>> WebFileAttachmentsController < ApplicationController
>>
>> - in routes.rb, I have this (following the docs stating that the
>> plugin name is the first part of the controller name):
>>  connect "/app/web_file_attachments/:action/:id", :controller =>
>> "web_file_attachment/web_file_attachments"
>>
>> And in the main rails config/routes.rb I have this:
>>  map.from_plugin :web_file_attachment
>>
>> I still end with this error:
>>  uninitialized constant WebFileAttachment::WebFileAttachmentsController
>>
>> though this is exactly how I name my controller.
>> If I try
>>  require 'web_file_attachments'
>> in init.rb, I get an error with ApplicationController not defined.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong here?
>> I'm using rails 2.1.1 and engines 2.0.0
>
> The most obvious things are:
>
>  * if your controller is WebFileAttachment::WebFileAttachmentsController,
> then it should be in a file called
> vendor/plugins/web_file_attachment/app/controllers/web_file_attachment/web_file_attachments_controller.rb

Maybe the documentation could be a bit clearer? The example at
http://api.rails-engines.org/classes/Engines/RailsExtensions/Routing.html
puts 'my_pluign/' in the controller route.

>  * if your controller is WebFileAttachmentsController, then it should be in
> a file called
> vendor/plugins/web_file_attachment/app/controllers/web_file_attachments_controller.rb

yes, you're right, I misnamed the controller file. Thanks for pointing it out!

Raph

>
> Essentially - the name of the plugin isn't involved in namespacing the
> controller, and the file needs to end with _controller.rb. Hopefully that
> should get you back on track.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
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