[PATCH] - Plugins can override app view templates
Reported by Nathan B | August 14th, 2010 @ 03:01 AM | in 0.9.10 "Alekhine"
Hello,
I have discovered that Rails Engines plugins are designed for a different purpose than I had assumed. A plugin is supposed to contain functionality for a Rails app, and then the developer can override files from the plugin to suit the base application.
I was assuming that plugins were meant to provide a way to extend or modify the base application, and this is not entirely true in all cases.
Using a plugin, I can add new models, controllers and views. I can also override or add methods to models and controllers using a class_eval. But I cannot override view templates. This is because plugins are designed so that the base application files take precedence.
Redmine (http://www.redmine.org/) developers have already found a solution by prepending plugin views to the beginning of the load path, thereby giving them priority over RAILS_ROOT/app/views.
I have added the 'prepend_engine_views' plugin from redmine to our fork: http://github.com/crossroads/fat_free_crm/commit/17060135e7cecb4897...
Hope it helps,
Nathan B
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Mike Dvorkin August 17th, 2010 @ 09:04 PM
- Milestone set to “0.9.10 "Alekhine"”
- State changed from “new” to “resolved”
- Milestone order changed from “64” to “0”
Thanks for the details info! I've basically taken you commit and moved the code to lib/fat_free_crm/plugin_view.rb. I think it looks cleaner that way. Please let me know if it works with your setup (hope it does!)
http://github.com/michaeldv/fat_free_crm/commit/07c2ba8fdebdcee1fe7...
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