Rails - Feb 2006 - Dynamic loading view from DB

Hi All,

I am looking for a way to dynamically load a view, inside a template, based
on uri that does not officially exist inside of rails.  i.e. a typical CMS
system such as wordpress that stores the html from the pages in a database.
I have found a page on the the rails wiki (
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToRunAnActionBeforeRoutes) that
seems to be what I want, but lacking a few details (to me, anyway) .

Is there a way to intercept an "unknown method" event?

Has any one tried this or have thoughts on how to do it?


Thanks!
--
Matt Secoske
http://www.secosoft.net
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On Feb 3, 2006, at 10:16 PM, Matt Secoske wrote:
> I am looking for a way to dynamically load a view, inside a  
> template, based on uri that does not officially exist inside of rails.
This makes me think you want something like this:

<div>
   <%= get_html_at_uri ''http://host/document'' -%>
</div>

but this:
> i.e. a typical CMS system such as wordpress that stores the html  
> from the pages in a database.  I have found a page on the the rails  
> wiki http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ 
> HowToRunAnActionBeforeRoutes) that seems to be what I want, but  
> lacking a few details (to me, anyway) .
...makes me think you''re looking for something like this:

class DynamicController < ApplicationController
   def show
     @code = DynamicContent.find(:id)
   end
end

In the view:

<div>
   <%= @code -%>
</div>

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-- Tom Mornini

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On 2/4/06, Tom Mornini <tmornini@infomania.com>
wrote:
>
> On Feb 3, 2006, at 10:16 PM, Matt Secoske wrote:
>
>
i.e. a typical CMS system such as wordpress that stores the html from the
pages in a database.  I have found a page on the the rails wiki
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToRunAnActionBeforeRoutes) that
seems to be what I want, but lacking a few details (to me, anyway) .

> ...makes me think you''re looking for something like this:
>
> class DynamicController < ApplicationController
>   def show
>     @code = DynamicContent.find(:id)
>   end
> end
>
> In the view:
>
> <div>
>   <%= @code -%>
> </div>
>
Yes, I am definetly looking for the DynamicController version... In fact, my
code is very similar to what you have here.  My question is how do you tie
this into rails such that it will be checked at some point in the rails
dispatched request in a seamless manner.  i.e. if a view does not exist for
http://domain/controller/action then it calls my controller with the uri and
allows me a chance to still display something.

I have been tinkering with routes.rb, and am able to get that to /sometimes/
work.  Any tips or explanations on how I can do this would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks!!
--
Matt Secoske
http://www.secosoft.net
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Matt Secoske wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/4/06, *Tom Mornini* <tmornini@infomania.com 
> <mailto:tmornini@infomania.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Feb 3, 2006, at 10:16 PM, Matt Secoske wrote:
>      
> 
>> i.e. a typical CMS system such as wordpress that stores the html from 
>> the pages in a database.  I have found a page on the the rails wiki  
>> http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToRunAnActionBeforeRoutes ) 
>> that seems to be what I want, but lacking a few details (to me, 
>> anyway) . 
> 
> 
>     ...makes me think you''re looking for something like this:
> 
>     class DynamicController < ApplicationController
>       def show
>         @code = DynamicContent.find (:id)
>       end
>     end
> 
>     In the view:
> 
>     <div>
>       <%= @code -%>
>     </div>
> 
> 
> Yes, I am definetly looking for the DynamicController version... In 
> fact, my code is very similar to what you have here.  My question is how 
> do you tie this into rails such that it will be checked at some point in 
> the rails dispatched request in a seamless manner.  i.e. if a view does 
> not exist for http://domain/controller/action then it calls my 
> controller with the uri and allows me a chance to still display something. 
> 
> I have been tinkering with routes.rb, and am able to get that to 
> /sometimes/ work.  Any tips or explanations on how I can do this would 
> be greatly appreciated.
> 
I did something similar just recently.  I wanted to use a URL like 
''http://app/static/<code>'' to access ether a
<code>.rhtml file or a
<code>.jpg or <code>.png file.

I made a controller, app/controllers/static_controller.rb
---- start -----
class StaticController < ApplicationController

     def method_missing(action_name)
         $code = action_name.to_s
                 if (File.exist? (@request.env()["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] + 
"../app/views/static/" + $code + ".rhtml")) then
                 render :action => action_name.to_s
         elsif (File.exist? (@request.env()["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] +
"images/"
+ $code + ".png")) then
                 $type = "png"
                 render :action => ''picture''
         elsif (File.exist? (@request.env()["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] +
"images/"
+ $code + ".jpg")) then
                 $type = "jpg"
                 render :action => ''picture''
         else
                 render :action => ''notfound''
         end
     end

         def picture

         end

         def notfound

         end
end

---- end   -----

I then created the files
app/views/layouts/static.rhtml
app/views/static/picture.rhtml
app/views/static/notfound.rhtml
and some content files
app/views/static/<code>.rhtml

In the method_missing method you should be able to do a 
<Controller>.find() call to see if there is dynamic content for a code 
then call a "render :action => ''dynamic''" to show
the dynamic code.

Hope this helps.
Regards Neil.


> Thanks!!
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> http://www.secosoft.net <http://www.secosoft.net>
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Still old, but maybe some other wanted a solution for it, which respons 
to "dynamic loading view from db"

class RouteController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @test = "asd"
    render_layout(1)
  end

  private
    def render_layout(id)
      render :inline => Page.find_by_id(id).layout.html
    end
end
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