Controllers inside the rails plugin folder is not loaded

[Srikanth Jeeva]

Hi,

In my rails( 2.3.5 ) application I have added a plugin named 'sample'.

I created controller in the path vendor/sample/app/controller/sample_controller.rb

class SampleController < ApplicationController
  def index
  end
end

I created routes for it in the path vendor/sample/config/routes.rb

map.resources :sample

Now when i restart the server and hit http://localhost:3000/sample in the browser,

I get,

NameError in SampleController#index
uninitialized constant SampleController

I don't know why rails is not loading my SampleController inside the plugin by default. 
If rails did not load controllers by default, how to load the controllers manually?



Thanks,
Srikanth

[Punit Rathore]

You have to modify your config.load_paths in environment.rb file and add all the new paths you would like to add. Something like this -

config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/sample)

Cheers,

Punit Rathore

Runa Inc

[Srikanth Jeeva]

Hi Punit,

Thanks for the reply. I did it and still the sample Issue. I wonder how it loads the routes from vendor/sample/config/routes.rb, but could not find controller.

Thanks,
Srikanth
 

[Srikanth Jeeva]

sorry i meant still the same Issue

NameError in SampleController#index
uninitialized constant SampleController

[Surya]

can you do "rake routes" and paste the result?

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[Punit Rathore]

I'm curious as to why you are trying to have a custom routes file, as opposed to using the default routes file provided by rails?

Punit Rathore

Runa Inc

[hemant]

Couple of things:

1. You don't want to usually add anything in environment.rb to load something from plugin, if plugin wants to load some controller it must load itself.  Its been awhile since I have used rails2, but you can try:

in your plugin's init.rb:

$LOAD_PATH << File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),"app")

and ensure that your controller is in, "app/controllers" directory of plugin.

also make sure that, each controller loaded via plugin is marked unloadable. 

2. vendor/sample/config/routes.rb is loaded because that is standard rails default.

cheers and let us know, if it works! (Don't have a rails 2 install to try, sorry).

 

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[Srikanth Jeeva]

Hi Hemant,

thanks for the reply. I have added a init.rb file, added the line, made controller unloadable. But still no luck.

Actually when i create a new ror application with 2.3.5, without the init.rb file, the controllers are loaded from the plugin.

I'm working in old project and I wonder why controllers inside the plugins are not loaded!

Thanks,
Srikanth

[Srikanth Jeeva]

I forgot to mention that its a Jruby on rails project. When i create a new jruby on rails app, controllers are loaded from plugin. So i dont think its a problem.