[Rails] Plugin refresh time

Trevor Squires
Sat, 06 May 2006 02:07:26 -0000

Hi Anthony,

while you are developing your plugin (and want reloading capability)
you could move the ''require'' and ''include''
lines from init.rb into
your ApplicationController (app/controllers/application.rb).
Assuming all other controllers inherit from this controller the
results ought to be the same.

You''ll need to change the ''require'' to
''require_dependency'' but apart
from that it should be fine.

Regards,
Trevor
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On 5-May-06, at 4:01 PM, Anthony Ramm wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I''m currently developing a plugin to do authentication and
> authorisation.  In the init.rb file of the plugin I have this code:-
> 	$:.unshift File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),
''lib''))
> 	require ''open_advantage/authorisation''
> 	ActionController::Base.send :include, OpenAdvantage::Authorisation
>
> and this is the skeleton of my plugin directory structure:-
> 	vendor/plugins/open_advantage/init.rb
> 	vendor/plugins/lib/open_advantage/authorisation.rb
>
> the ''vendor/plugins/lib/open_advantage/authorisation.rb''
file contains
> 	module OpenAdvantage
> 		module Authorisation
> 		end
> 	end
> currently with only a few methods in the Authorisation module.
> However, when I change one of the functions in this module the
> function is not mirrored in the output of the web browser.  For
> example if I deliberately make a mistake in the code it carrys on
> as before when it should presumably raise a ''Come on, FFS this is
> nonsensical rubbish'' error.  It continues to do this until the web
> server (either lighttpd or webrick, I''ve tried both) are
restarted.
>
> Is there someway I can make the changes I''ve made in my plugin
> immediately available to the application?  I''ve tried putting
> various require and include statements into the app/controllers/
> application.rb file, but to no avail.  The only way I can find for
> it to pick up the changes every time is to pop the classes in the
> app/controllers/application.rb file, and I''d really rather not
> develop like that.
>
> Any help would be gratefully received.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anthony
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