Ah, you confused me with ActiveRecord::Base vs ActionView::Base
thing...
I think I'm making progress:
>> base = ActionView::Base.new('/app/views/content', {}, ContentController)
=> #<ActionView::Base:0x22df37c @base_path="/app/views/content",
@controller=ContentController, @assigns_added=nil, @assigns={},
@logger=#<Logger:0x22c4e28 @level=0,
@default_formatter=#<Logger::Formatter:0x22c4c98
@datetime_format=nil>, @progname=nil, @logdev=#<Logger::LogDevice:
0x22c4bf8 @dev=#<File:script/../config/../config/../log/
development.log>, @shift_size=1048576, @shift_age=0,
@filename="script/../config/../config/../log/development.log",
@mutex=#<Logger::LogDevice::LogDeviceMutex:0x22c4b08 @mon_owner=nil,
@mon_waiting_queue=[], @mon_entering_queue=[], @mon_count=0>>,
@formatter=nil>>
>> Haml::Engine.new('= link_to "blah", "/"').render(base)
=> "<a href=\"/\">blah</a>\n"
Awesome!
But:
>> Haml::Engine.new('= image_tag "blah.gif"').render(base)
NoMethodError: undefined method `request' for ContentController:Class
from (haml):1
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/
lib/action_view/helpers/asset_tag_helper.rb:207:in
`compute_public_path'
Bah, Fixable if I comment that line out in that ActionView helper.
There are still problems though.
I can't use my own helper methods still:
>> Haml::Engine.new('= short_date Date.today').render(base)
NoMethodError: undefined method `short_date' for #<ActionView::Base:
0x228672c>
And I can't use partials:
>> Haml::Engine.new('= render :partial => "test"').render(base)
NoMethodError: undefined method `controller_path' for Class:Class
Still missing something :(
Thanks so much
On May 3, 2:06 pm, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The third argument to the ActionView::Base is an actual instance of a
> controller. You need it to do stuff like url_for and link_to in ActionView.
>
> The way Rails works is to render templates (both Haml and ERB) in an
> ActionView instance, giving you access to all the handy helpers. You
> could do it in a model like User, but then you wouldn't have access to
> the helpers but would instead have access to the User's variables, which
> would be weird.
>
> - Nathan
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hey Nathan,
>
> > Context thing definitely makes sense to me now. However I have
> > difficulty properly setting up that base variable.
>
> > So if I do
>
> >>> base = ActiveRecord::Base.new('app/views', {}, ContentController)
>
> > NameError: uninitialized constant ContentController
>
> > I have ContentController that is not tied to any model there.
> > Obviously I'm doing this completely wrong.
>
> > also
> > base = User.new doesn't really provide context that I'm looking for?
> > Different thing?
>
> > Thanks
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