"Scott Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd really, *really* like to find a way to keep the sidebar code and views
> bundled together in the same directory structure. From what I can see here,
> you're breaking the two apart as a sort of natural consequence of dropping
> components. Can we please find a way to stick them back together?
Ah... now I was deliberately trying to reflect the same structure as
the rest of rails; there's nothing to stop us having a structure like:
vendor/plugins/pluggable_sidebars/sidebars/amazon:
amazon_sidebar.rb
_content.rhtml
_configure.rhtml
ie, just have 'em sat side by side. It's all in how you implement
'with_include_path'
Hmm... I think this might be the way to go, that way we can sling
extra sidebars around as simple tarballs that can go pretty much
anywhere in the include path. I can imagine a day when complex
sidebars get their own gem installation and you either include them
with environment.rb or do
./script/generate sidebar foo
which copies the appropriate files from the gem directory and dumps
'em in your vendor/plugins/pluggable_sidebars/sidebars directory where
they'll get picked up by init.rb
Of course, YAGNI applies, so I'll not actually implement that until
someone demonstrates a need for it, but it does give us a potential
route to letting people distribute sidebars rather neatly.
Another possible layout for the sidebar's directory gos something like this:
amazon/amazon_sidebar.rb
/views/_content.rhtml
_configure.rhtml
/tests/test_amazon.rb
Especially handy if we can write a test_sidebars task that will run those
tests.
In other words, it's all up in the air, I haven't implemented anything
yet, so now's a good time to think about what the API is going to be
like.
--
Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.bofh.org.uk/
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