Masterview users - Feb 2007 - How come app/views/<controllername> is empty?

Apart from the webrick problem documented previously, I had a puzzling
problem: views/controller directory would stay empty after doing
"script/generate model controller". Script would say everything is OK,
but I would get a "Missing template
script/../config/../app/views/foo/list.rhtml" error in the browser
on trying to get to the controller.

The problem is that I don''t know what fixed this. When I got the
webrick problem sorted out, the generator suddenly started working as
well. But as the problems probably weren''t related, I''d like
to know
if anybody else has seen this? What was the solution?

BTW, Masterview would need better support for merging it with existing
plain Rails projects. I don''t think I''m the only one realizing
halfway
into coding that something like Masterviews would be needed. Or at least
better documentation how to do it... I''m willing to help, but with
about
 8 hours of Masterview experience I''m not the ideal candidate.

On 2/16/07, Lea Viljanen <Lea.Viljanen at iki.fi>
wrote:
>
> Apart from the webrick problem documented previously, I had a puzzling
> problem: views/controller directory would stay empty after doing
> "script/generate model controller". Script would say everything
is OK,
> but I would get a "Missing template
> script/../config/../app/views/foo/list.rhtml" error in the browser
> on trying to get to the controller.


Hmm. Sounds like there was an exception happening in the generate that was
not actually letting the code succeed to create the files. Unfortunately
many of these rails commands eat the exception by default so we don''t
always
see the output, sometimes you can get more output by adding a command line
option.


The problem is that I don''t know what fixed this. When I got
the
> webrick problem sorted out, the generator suddenly started working as
> well. But as the problems probably weren''t related, I''d
like to know
> if anybody else has seen this? What was the solution?


I''m guessing that somehow you resolved the original exception and
things
started working again. We''ll try to indicate in our docs how one can
get
more useful output if you are having problems.


BTW, Masterview would need better support for merging it with
existing
> plain Rails projects. I don''t think I''m the only one
realizing halfway
> into coding that something like Masterviews would be needed. Or at least
> better documentation how to do it... I''m willing to help, but with
about
> 8 hours of Masterview experience I''m not the ideal candidate.


Yes, while you can currently mix and match using MasterView with an existing
project, others have also suggested interest in being able to import
existing rhtml into the MasterView templates would really help. I agree that
this would be a nice feature to have, but I haven''t quite worked
through all
the technical details to be able to make this happen. It is on our todo
list.

Jeff
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