Adding plugins to Concerto v2

[Rob]

I have been trying to add the RSS Feed and Youtube plugins to Concerto v2 unsuccessfully. The instructions here are somewhat vague to someone who has never worked with Ruby. https://github.com/concerto/concerto/wiki/Plugins

If somewhat could please walk me through exactly what  need to do I would be very grateful.

[Brian Michalski]

Hi Rob,

You're right, the documentation you've found isn't particularly useful.  Right now it's written for plugin developers, and technically speaking content type plugins don't quite follow that process either.  We tried to make this easier and install both of these plugins by default on V2.  You can check to see if they are installed by by looking in your Gemfile.lock and making sure there are entries for "concerto_simple_rss" and "concerto_remote_video".

If you're not seeing the option to create those two content types when you are on /content/new it might be because you don't have any feeds that allow that content type.  In V2 we introduced the ability to control what content types can be submitted to a feed, there are check boxes on the feed edit page which will control this. I would visit /feeds/<id>/edit (or click the edit button next to a feed on the v2 homepage) and make sure all the content type checkboxes are checked, including the video and rss ones.  Even if they are all checked by default, click "save" to force that setting to stick... we've had a bug or two where the UI shows them as checked and the backend does not.

Let me know how it goes!

Thanks,

~Brian M

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Rob <rob.pe...@rsu34.k12.me.us> wrote:

I have been trying to add the RSS Feed and Youtube plugins to Concerto v2 unsuccessfully. The instructions here are somewhat vague to someone who has never worked with Ruby. https://github.com/concerto/concerto/wiki/Plugins

If somewhat could please walk me through exactly what  need to do I would be very grateful.

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[Rob]

Wow, I feel like a complete idiot. I assumed they were not showing up because they had to be added and I had not seen the edit feed page. Clicking the check boxes did the trick. So simple a monkey could do it. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Brian.

[Brian Michalski]

I'm glad you were able to get it sorted out.  This sort of feedback is really helpful to us, you shouldn't have had to feel like an idiot to begin with; I'll file a bug to improve this (perhaps with some better defaults).

~Brian M

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Rob <rob.pe...@rsu34.k12.me.us> wrote:

Wow, I feel like a complete idiot. I assumed they were not showing up because they had to be added and I had not seen the edit feed page. Clicking the check boxes did the trick. So simple a monkey could do it. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Brian.

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[Brian R Zaik]

I agree. Thanks Rob, we'll make this more obvious.

/brz