Masterview users - Oct 2006 - MasterView Admin Controller problem and more

I can''t get to the MasterView Admin Controller. I have enabled it by 
setting the |"enable_admin_pages"| configuration setting to true in
the
"C:\rails\config\masterview\settings.rb" file. When I go to URL 
"http://localhost:3000/masterview", I get the following error: Routing
Error / Recognition failed for "/masterview"

Also, running the MasterView generator for my Admin controller created 
all the expected html files alongside the existing rhtml files. It 
appears that Rails is only using the rhtml files as modifications to the 
html files are not reflected when the app is run. Did I generate the 
files incorrectly or am I misunderstanding how MasterView works?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ken

On 10/1/06, Ken Koceja <krkoceja at wi.rr.com>
wrote:
> I can''t get to the MasterView Admin Controller. I have enabled it
by
> setting the |"enable_admin_pages"| configuration setting to true
in the
> "C:\rails\config\masterview\settings.rb" file. When I go to URL
> "http://localhost:3000/masterview", I get the following error:
Routing
> Error / Recognition failed for "/masterview"
>
> Also, running the MasterView generator for my Admin controller created
> all the expected html files alongside the existing rhtml files. It
> appears that Rails is only using the rhtml files as modifications to the
> html files are not reflected when the app is run. Did I generate the
> files incorrectly or am I misunderstanding how MasterView works?
>
Ken,

It sounds to me that somehow the admin controller is not getting
loaded at startup as well as the automatic reparsing of the html
feature and the loading of rhtml directly from masterview rather than
writing to file system feature.

Can you reply with a copy of the output that is given when you start
your server? Hopefully the output will shed some light on what is
happening. Here''s what I see when I start a copy on windows.

C:\rails\demoa>ruby script\server
=> Booting WEBrick...
 INFO MasterView: Initializing MasterView configuration (2006-10-02 05:22)
 INFO MasterView: Program name = script/server
 INFO MasterView: MasterView Admin pages enabled
 INFO MasterView: Adding hook to allow MasterView to check for templates that ha
ve changed when processing a request
 INFO MasterView: Adding hooks to enable Rails to read erb directly
from MasterView
 INFO MasterView: MasterView plugin initialized - Version 0.2.5
=> Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with --help for options
[2006-10-02 05:22:16] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2006-10-02 05:22:16] INFO  ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]
[2006-10-02 05:22:16] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=3688 port=3000


If you could also mention the steps you went through to get things up
and running, maybe that will help. For instance indicate whether you
installed via gem or plugin and what generate commands you used.
Something like

gem install masterview_gem_pack
cd c:\rails
rails demo
cd demo
ruby script\generate masterview_plugin
ruby script\generate masterview Product Store
ruby script\server

Finally if you could give the output of these commands it might also help

gem list rails
gem list masterview

Are you running rails 1.1.6, edge rails, or an older version?

Thanks,

Jeff

On 10/3/06, Ken Koceja <krkoceja at wi.rr.com>
wrote:
> I installed MasterView using gem and I''m using Rails 1.1.6.
>
> If I recall correctly, these were my steps. I created a Rails skeleton
> application, created my DB and model, and then used the rails scaffold
> generator for the model and admin controller. Finally, I executed the
> MasterView generator for the model and controller. I believe I included
> everything you asked for below. I''m new to both Rails and
MasterView so
> please excuse my ignorance.
>
> ====================================================>
C:\rails\work\seniorcolony>ruby script\server
> => Booting WEBrick...
> => Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000
> => Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with --help for options
> [2006-10-03 20:14:17] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
> [2006-10-03 20:14:17] INFO  ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]
> [2006-10-03 20:14:18] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=2924 port=3000
> ====================================================
No problem Ken. My goal is to make this simple to use for anyone
(rookies and veterans alike), so once we can figure out what is not
working for you, we can update the documentation (or install)
appropriately.

Did you perhaps not run the generate plugin step? (Try doing this)

cd yourwebapp
ruby script\generate masterview_plugin

You need to do this once for each new web application because it
copies a minimal amount of things into the web app so that it gets
loaded as a plugin. This is in addition to any masterview scaffolding
you do (ruby script\generate masterview Product Store).

It will copy some things into vendor/plugins/masterview

If you don''t remember it''s fine to run it again, it
won''t hurt anything.

Let me know if after you do this if you have more output when you
start your server and hopefully things start working :-) The only
other thing we might and should probably do is to

Thanks,

Jeff