Rails - Mar 2006 - Components calling components...

Hi,

I''m relatively new to ruby and rails.  I would like to have a sidebar
component call one of several other constituent components.

I''ve run into some problems, and so I''ve pruned things back to
a
relatively simple case.

I have a sidebar component.  Renders great.  In it''s layout, I call
render_component for another component I would like in the sidebar. 
This seems to work.  Right now, I end up with an error message in my
sidebar saying that the template is missing.  It shows a path to where
it expected to find the template.  I agree...that''s where I expected
to put my template.

Here''s the problem:  When I put my template in (regardless of content:
empty file, only HTML, etc) and reload I get a bus error and a core
dump.

I''m using WEBrick, Rail 1.0.0, ruby 1.8.4 on FreeBSD 5.4.

Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong?

Thanks,
  Brad
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Bradley Mazurek

So as I outlined earlier, doing a render_component() call within a
component layout seems to cause WEBrick to core dump for me.

I did some more playing and I found out that instead of doing this:

  application.html
    - render sidebar component
        - render tool1 component
        - render tool2 component

if I do this:

  application.html
    - render tool1 component
    - render tool2 component
    - render sidebar component
        - render tool1 component
        - render tool2 component

The page seems to render as I would expect.  No core dump.

Now if I revert to the original one, I don''t get a core dump (as long
as it''s within the same WEBrick process).

So, this appears to be some file loading issue, doesn''t it?

How can I go about having the sidebar component ensure that the tool1
and tool2 components are loaded?  I tried doing require''s, but that
didn''t seem to work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
  Brad
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Bradley Mazurek