Rails - Mar 2007 - Extending controllers with actions from external files?

Hey :)

I have some auto_complete_for_blah_blah actions that are used in
different controllers. In the spirit of DRY, I''d like to separate
these actions in unique files which I then load into the controllers
that use them.

Okay, so the way I can do it now is for instance
myapp
  +- lib
    +- auto_complete_for
      +- user_printed_name.rb

And then, I can
  require ''auto_complete_for/user_printed_name''

in the controllers that use this auto_completer.

However, even though the method is available to the controller, I
still get "no action responded to
''auto_complete_for_user_printed_name''" when I call the
action. That
is, it''s available as a local method to the controller, but
I''d really
like for it to appear as an action, so that I don''t have to create a
proxy, like,

def auto_complete_for_user_printed_name
  shared_auto_complete_for_user_printed_name
end

How would I do that?

Thanks :)

Daniel


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Daniel Smedegaard Buus wrote the following on 08.03.2007 11:11
:
> Hey :)
>
> I have some auto_complete_for_blah_blah actions that are used in
> different controllers. In the spirit of DRY, I''d like to separate
> these actions in unique files which I then load into the controllers
> that use them.
>
> Okay, so the way I can do it now is for instance
> myapp
>   +- lib
>     +- auto_complete_for
>       +- user_printed_name.rb
>
> And then, I can
>   require ''auto_complete_for/user_printed_name''
>
> in the controllers that use this auto_completer.
>   
From memory, you should:
include AutoCompleteFor::UserPrintedName

assuming this the module name defined in
lib/auto_complete_for/user_printed_name.rb

You probably don''t need the require if your module naming matches your
directory structure like in the example above (Rails figures the needed
require for itself).

Lionel

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On Mar 8, 11:50 am, Lionel Bouton
<lionel-subscript...-WTamNBQcZIx7tPAFqOLdPg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> From memory, you should:
> include AutoCompleteFor::UserPrintedName
>
> assuming this the module name defined in
> lib/auto_complete_for/user_printed_name.rb
>
> You probably don''t need the require if your module naming matches
your
> directory structure like in the example above (Rails figures the needed
> require for itself).
>
Close! Following your advice and a little fiddling, I found that with,

  lib/auto_complete_for.rb:
    module AutoCompleteFor
      module UserPrintedName
        def auto_complete_for_user_printed_name
          // implementation
        end
      end
    end

I can use the syntax you describe,

  include AutoCompleteFor::UserPrintedName

and have the actions implemented!

Thank you very much! :D

Daniel :)
> Lionel

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