Rails - Mar 2007 - Adding actions/methods to a controller via a plugin

Hi,

I would like to develop a plugin, that if enabled in a controller, extends the 
controller with some basic methods (actions).

Here''s what I''ve done so far:
In init.rb:

require ''my_scaffold''
ActionController::Base.send :include, MyScaffold 


in lib/my_scaffold.rb:

module MyScaffold
    def foo
      render :text => "Hello World"
    end
end 


But everytime I try to access this new action "foo" I get an
"Unknown Action"
error from rails. 

What am I missing?

Timo

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Hi,

after some more tests the problem seems to be with defining methods as public:
> in lib/my_scaffold.rb:
>
> module MyScaffold
>     def foo
>       render :text => "Hello World"
>     end
> end
Calling foo from another methode, i.e. "index" the text "Hello
World" is
rendered:

class MyController < ApplicationController
  def index
    foo
  end
end

Seems like the added methode "foo" isn''t a public methode.
So, how do I define
the foo-methode as public?

Regards,
Timo

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Hallo Timo


Did you found any other solution to this issue?

I just want to create a controller class into my plugin,
in order to call it directly from browser. But I don''t get it running.

Thanks.

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