Creating a new model/controller in Spree

[Jhudiel Bayotlang]

Hi Guys,

I'm new in using spree and I just want to ask is there a way to add new controllers/model to Spree / Spree API

I appreciate any help or suggestion.

Thanks.

[Peter Berkenbosch]

Hi Jdudiel,

Welcome! 

Please take your time to read through the guides http://guides.spreecommerce.com/developer/

Feel free to ask any question you might have after reading those.

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[Jhudiel Bayotlang]

Hi Peter.

Thanks for your time. I was going through the documentations earlier.. Unfortunately I can find what I'm looking for or I just over read it.. I was wondering if you could help me. I want to add a new controller/model to spree and make as it was part of the api. Is that possible?

Please correct me if I said something wrong.

Thanks.

[Peter Berkenbosch]

Yes, that’s possible. You just need write the ruby code for that in your application or extension. 

If you just need some additional attributes on the api that’s already there, take a look here: http://guides.spreecommerce.com/integration/custom_attributes.html

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[Jhudiel Bayotlang]

Oh. Do I need to extend the controllers to a specific spree class?

[Gagan Babber]

Hey I want to add an admin controller to spree but i could not find any documentation on how to do it . Can u tell me whats the best way to do it. Kinda new to spree and im using latets version of spree

[Peter Berkenbosch]

You can just generate a controller and decorate the route file for the backend gem. 

There is an extensions tutorial here: http://guides.spreecommerce.com/developer/extensions_tutorial.html

Peter.

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[Bryan Stone]

This isn't completely helpful, as the tutorial doesn't cover creating a new controller, only extending an existing one.  

Is there a good article for how to extend Spree::Admin::ResourceController?  I have a similar need.

Thank you!

[Jeff Dutil]

I would recommend reading articles on extending rails controllers in general.

If you want to add an admin controller that inherits from ResourceController it's really pretty much this simple to do:

https://github.com/spree/spree/blob/master/backend/app/controllers/spree/admin/countries_controller.rb

You just override whichever ResourceController methods you want to within the controller if needed.

[Bryan Stone]

Thank you - I did have success building a new controller using that template.  If anyone else needs to see a real-world example of an extension adding a custom controller - you can view the extension I just released: https://github.com/aegixx/spree_alternate_prices.  In particular, the price_categories_controller.  The controller is slim, so you'll want to see the views for how I access the resources using @collection & @object.

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[Bryan Stone]

Jeff - by the way, my extension spree_alternate_prices may be a good start on the Group pricing/discounts on the Spree Roadmap built on top of the spree_multi_currency.