Rails - Oct 2006 - Splitting controller

I''m trying to split controller into several files. I tried extracting
methods into separate files and then requiring them in main
controller, but this doesn''t seem to work.

controllers/reports/sales_reports.rb:
class ReportController < ApplicationController
  def sales
  end
end

controllers/reports/purchases_reports.rb:
class ReportController < ApplicationController
  def purchases
  end
end

controllers/report_controller.rb:
require ''reports/sales_reports''
require ''reports/purchases_reports''
class ReportController < ApplicationController
end

This doesn''t seem to work. What I''m doing wrong?

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Warning: I''m a TOTAL Ruby/Rails beginner
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you would have to extract the shared methods into modules, not classes
(controllers)
and then require AND include them.
- require loads the files into the class file
- include mixes the loaded file''s methods into the class
Put the modules in /lib directory for the example below. you can also
put them in a subdir of the controller dir and give the path in the
require call

sales.rb:
module sales
def sales
....
end

purchases.rb:
module purchases
def purchases
...
end
end

controllers/report_controller.rb:
require ''sales''
require ''reports''
class ReportController < ApplicationController
include sales
include purchases

...class code ...
end


The methods "sales" & "purchases" will then be available
in the
ReportController class

Check out Modules Doc for a more detailed explanation like avoiding
namespace problems etc.: http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

my code is most probably wrong in some details, as i said above i''m a
total beginner and the whole syntax stuff is still in the
learning-by-doing process


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Thank you, as always the solution was to read ''Programming
Ruby'' :)
You suggestion worked, the only error was that module names have to
start with capital letter.

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