Masterview users - Jul 2007 - Forcing a rebuild of all templates from the command line

I may be doing something wrong, but I can  not get my rhtml view files 
re-built on-demand.

For  example, if I delete all the rhtml that have been generated from 
MasterView HTML files, and call the rake task  mv:rebuild_all, I do not 
see the rhtml files recreated.

If I go through the MasterView admin Web page it seems to work, but only 
if I go and alter the html files. (Running ''touch'' on the
files doesn''t
help.)


It seems that the rhtml files do not get created unless MasterView 
thinks the source HTML has changed, even if the rhtml files do not 
exist.  And then only via the Web tool.



Thanks,
-- 
James Britt

On 7/2/07, James Britt <james.britt at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I may be doing something wrong, but I can  not get my rhtml view files
> re-built on-demand.
>
> For  example, if I delete all the rhtml that have been generated from
> MasterView HTML files, and call the rake task  mv:rebuild_all, I do not
> see the rhtml files recreated.
>
> If I go through the MasterView admin Web page it seems to work, but only
> if I go and alter the html files. (Running ''touch'' on the
files doesn''t
> help.)
>
>
> It seems that the rhtml files do not get created unless MasterView
> thinks the source HTML has changed, even if the rhtml files do not
> exist.  And then only via the Web tool.


I''ll take a look and see if I can figure out what might be going wrong.
Thanks for mentioning it.

-- 
Jeff Barczewski, MasterView core team
Inspired Horizons Ruby on Rails Training and Consultancy
http://inspiredhorizons.com/
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On 7/3/07, Jeff Barczewski <jeff.barczewski at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 7/2/07, James Britt <james.britt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I may be doing something wrong, but I can  not get my rhtml view files
> > re-built on-demand.
> >
> > For  example, if I delete all the rhtml that have been generated from
> > MasterView HTML files, and call the rake task  mv:rebuild_all, I do
not
> > see the rhtml files recreated.
> >
> > If I go through the MasterView admin Web page it seems to work, but
only
> > if I go and alter the html files. (Running ''touch''
on the files doesn''t
> > help.)
> >
> >
> > It seems that the rhtml files do not get created unless MasterView
> > thinks the source HTML has changed, even if the rhtml files do not
> > exist.  And then only via the Web tool.
>
>
>
> I''ll take a look and see if I can figure out what might be going
wrong.
> Thanks for mentioning it.



James,

I took a look and the code appears to be functioning properly, however I
believe our documentation wasn''t clear about which rake task does what
so
this may be the source of the problem.

rake mv:parse  # is the one which generates the rhtml files

mv:rebuild and mv:rebuild_all actually only update the HTML template files
(if they have outdated imports) not the rhtml that is generated

I guess the naming of these wasn''t the greatest.

I have updated the docs on MV website to clarify this a little and have made
a change for the next release to use the rake task name
mv:generate_all_rhtml (deprecating mv:parse) so that hopefully this will be
a little clearer to people in the future.

For now you can use
rake mv:parse

in next version 0.3.4 this will be the preferred task
rake mv:generate_all_rhtml

Sorry for the confusion. Also note that if you want files generated to file
system you will need to set the config.generate_rhtml_files = true in
config/masterview/settings.rb or the appropriate
config/masterview/environments/*.rb, otherwise the rhtml is generated only
internally.

PS. I haven''t forgotten about the sidebar content_for issue, just
haven''t
come up with a good approach to solving it yet.

Let me know if you have any additional problems.

Blessings,

Jeff


-- 
Jeff Barczewski, MasterView core team
Inspired Horizons Ruby on Rails Training and Consultancy
http://inspiredhorizons.com/
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