Rails - Aug 2006 - Extending rails with plugins

I''ve been looking at bottling some functionality up into a plugin, but
I''m
having some problems including it.

The structure I have is:

/app/controllers/admin/base_controller.rb:
class Admin::BaseController > ApplicationController
    #snip#
end

/vendor/plugins/myplugin/lib/my_module.rb:
module MyModule
    def new_func
        "New Function"
    end
end

/vendor/plugins/myplugin/init.rb:
require ''my_module''
Admin::BaseController.send :include, MyModule


However, this gives me an ''uninitialized constant ApplicationController
(NameError)'' error when I start Rails

Can I do what I''m trying to do this way? And if not, what are my
alternatives?

Thanks,
Gareth

> /vendor/plugins/myplugin/init.rb:
> require ''my_module''
> Admin::BaseController.send :include, MyModule
>
>
> However, this gives me an ''uninitialized constant
ApplicationController
> (NameError)'' error when I start Rails
>
> Can I do what I''m trying to do this way? And if not, what are my
alternatives?
>
> Thanks,
> Gareth
Try require ''application''.  Though, this will probably be
problematic
in dev mode.

If you''re on edge rails, try the new Dispatcher.to_prepare stuff:

Dispatcher.to_prepare :my_plugin do
  require ''my_module''
  require ''application''
  Admin::BaseController.send :include, MyModule
end

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb#L63

-- 
Rick Olson
http://techno-weenie.net

> Dispatcher.to_prepare :my_plugin do
>   require ''my_module''
>   require ''application''
>   Admin::BaseController.send :include, MyModule
> end
>
> http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb#L63
require ''my_module''

Dispatcher.to_prepare :my_plugin do
  require_dependency ''application'' # allows dev reloading
  Admin::BaseController.send :include, MyModule
end

-- 
Rick Olson
http://techno-weenie.net