Maybe to give it a more general touch and clearify things a little:
The problem is, that I need some kind of configuration and I have to
know, what kind of content elements exist in the application.
One approach would be to have a configuration-file (yaml) or db-table
and say there something like: content_elements = text, image...
The problem would be, that if I want to add another type of element, I
have to edit this file or the db field.
Instead I want to have the opportunity to create a list of all content
elements at runtime and so make it possible to add different types of
content elements by only saying "acts_as_content_element" (for eg.) in
a model class. The problem is, that I have to find a way to know the
models, which are content elements.
Anybody came over this problem yet? Would this be a good approach and
how can I do this? Or is the usage of some kind of configuration-file
the better way?
I think in the future developement of this project I''m going to hit
this problem again, when it comes to the creation of a menu based on a
few specific controllers, so the solution has to fit here as well.
Maybe someone as a general (or the better a more detailed) solution?!?
Mike
On Jun 10, 7:29 pm, Mike <mike.zasc...-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> Hey,
>
> while building a small CMS I now have the problem to create some
> content elements. To be able to make a selectbox (or something
> similar), I have to figure out, which content elements (each has its
> own model-class) exist.
> My plan was to extend the model-classes with some kind of module to
> add some common methods and use
> self.included(class) in the module to get all classes which include
> this module. But the problem is, that this method is only called when
> an instance of the class is created.
> So the question is, how do I fetch all classes? Is there a common way
> to do this and/or do I have to iterate over the files and read this
> out (and how is this done :-) )?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
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