Re: [Radiant] Forms extension
I used apotonick's cells so that I could embed a regular Rails form
(rendered through Rails) in a Radiant page. I found the Radiant
extension too limiting.
This is rather involved though. What I like about it is I can embed
arbitrarily complex forms without having to leave the Radiant rendering
system. I plan to write this up at some point and put it in the Wiki.
At a very high - level, here's how I did that.
1) Install cells 3.3.4 (anything higher is Rails 3 specific)
2) Added these commands so that cells can be processed from within
Radiant (I did these in a custom extension (and the pathing reflects
that), but you could theoretically do them anywhere in the
initialization process, as long as you got the paths right):
CELL_PATH = "#{File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__))}/app/cells"
CELL_FILES = Dir.glob("#{CELL_PATH}/*_cell.rb").map {|f|
File.basename(f)}
##Cell configuration
#Modify view paths for ::Cell::Base to include local cell view
directories
::Cell::Base.view_paths += [CELL_PATH, "#{CELL_PATH}/layouts"]
#Add CELL_PATH to Rails $LOAD_PATH
$LOAD_PATH.unshift CELL_PATH
#Require each Cell class
CELL_FILES.each {|f| require f}
3) Created cells to render my form. Here's an example:
app/cells/question_instances_cell.rb:
class QuestionInstancesCell < ::Cell::Base
def new
@question_type = QuestionType.find(@opts['question_type_id'])
if @question_type.question_type =~ /FAQ/
@question_instance = QuestionInstance.new()
view = :edit_faq
else
@question_instance = QuestionInstance.new(:question =>
@question_type.questions.first)
view = :edit
end
render :view => view
end
end
/app/cells/question_instances:
-rw-r--r--@ 1 weyus staff 568 Aug 30 16:46 edit.html.haml
-rw-r--r--@ 1 weyus staff 658 Sep 6 13:21 edit_faq.html.haml
/app/cells/question_instances/edit.html.haml:
- type = @question_type.question_type
- form_for [:admin, @question_instance] do |f|
= f.error_messages
%p
= type
%br/
= f.select :question_id, @question_type.questions.map {|q|
[q.question, q.id]}
%p
= f.label :question_text, "Edit the question to best fit your
selling situation"
%br/
= f.text_area :question_text, :value =>
@question_type.questions.first.question, :class => 'short'
%p
= f.label :new_form, "Would you like to build another #{type}
question?"
= check_box_tag :new_form, 1, false
%p
= submit_tag 'Submit'
4) Created a custom tag to allow for a cell to be rendered inside of a
Radiant template:
tag "cell" do |tag|
if tag.attr['name'] && tag.attr['view']
name, view = tag.attr.delete('name'), tag.attr.delete('view')
tag.locals.page.response.template.controller.render_cell(name,
view, tag.attr)
else
raise TagError.new("`cell' tag must contain `name' and `view'
attributes")
end
end
5) Call the tag from my Radiant template:
Wes
On 11/12/10 9:34 AM, Marshal Linfoot wrote:
Has anyone used a forms/mailer extension for Radiant that allows a
file to be attached and sent with the form? I have a form working --
users fills in text, selects choices from dropdown, checks radio
buttons -- everything works, contents emailed successfully. I'm trying
to add the capability for people to select a file (photo) from their
computer to be attached to the email but I can't get it to work. If
you've got it working, could you please share your solution?
Many thanks.
--
marshal
Re: [Radiant] Forms extension
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Marshal Linfoot wrote: > Has anyone used a forms/mailer extension for Radiant that allows a file to > be attached and sent with the form? I have a form working -- users fills in > text, selects choices from dropdown, checks radio buttons -- everything > works, contents emailed successfully. I'm trying to add the capability for > people to select a file (photo) from their computer to be attached to the > email but I can't get it to work. If you've got it working, could you please > share your solution? try the aissac fork. i've setup mailer with attachments before and i think that was the fork i used (if not poke around the network and you'll find it).
[Radiant] Forms extension
Has anyone used a forms/mailer extension for Radiant that allows a file to be attached and sent with the form? I have a form working -- users fills in text, selects choices from dropdown, checks radio buttons -- everything works, contents emailed successfully. I'm trying to add the capability for people to select a file (photo) from their computer to be attached to the email but I can't get it to work. If you've got it working, could you please share your solution? Many thanks. -- marshal
Re: [Radiant] Forms Extension
Thanks Jim. Here's the pastie: http://pastie.org/1279841 Is the "Yajl::ParseError" caused by the FormsController trying to parse the file that was uploaded? If so, what to do about it? I'm totally lost here, so any suggestions for troubleshooting would be much appreciated. -- marshal
Re: [Radiant] Forms Extension
On Nov 7, 2010, at 8:12 AM, Marshal Linfoot wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm using the forms and forms-mailer extensions to create a form to be > emailed. Most of it is working well except for attachments. I've used the > tag to get a file chooser button/dialog and that appears to work. In > the "content" page of the form, what gets emailed, I've used to get > the uploaded file, but when the form is submitted, a 500 application error is > given "for exceptions thrown outside of an action". > > What am I missing? Thanks for any suggestions. > > -- > marshal I don't really know those extensions at all, but you'll need to look at your log file. From the root directory of your app, run "tail -500 log/production.log" That will show you the last 500 lines of your production log. Look there for details about the actual error. If you need more help, copy what you find into a pastie and reply back. -Jim Jim Gay Saturn Flyer LLC www.saturnflyer.com 571 - 403 - 0338
[Radiant] Forms Extension
Greetings. I'm using the forms and forms-mailer extensions to create a form to be emailed. Most of it is working well except for attachments. I've used the tag to get a file chooser button/dialog and that appears to work. In the "content" page of the form, what gets emailed, I've used to get the uploaded file, but when the form is submitted, a 500 application error is given "for exceptions thrown outside of an action". What am I missing? Thanks for any suggestions. -- marshal
[Radiant] Forms extension and RESTful ruoting mechanics
Is there anything about squaretalent's forms extension (http://github.com/squaretalent/radiant-forms-extension) that conflicts with standard RESTful routing semantics for form targets? Thanks, Wes
