I am trying to develop a plugin for Ruby on Rails and came across problems rendering my html view. My directory structure looks like so:
File Structure
---/vendor
|---/plugins
|---/todo
|---/lib
|---/app
|---/controllers
|---todos_controller.rb
|---/models
|---todos.rb
|---/views
|---index.html.erb
|---todo_lib.rb
|---/rails
|---init.rb
In /rails/init.rb
require 'todo_lib'
In /lib/app/todo_lib.rb
%w{ models controllers views }.each do |dir|
# Include the paths:
# /Users/Me/Sites/myRailsApp/vendor/plugins/todo/lib/app/models
# /Users/Me/Sites/myRailsApp/vendor/plugins/todo/lib/app/controllers
# /Users/Me/Sites/myRailsApp/vendor/plugins/todo/lib/app/views
path = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'app', dir))
# We add the above path to be included when Rails boots up
$LOAD_PATH << path
ActiveSupport::Dependencies.load_paths << path
ActiveSupport::Dependencies.load_once_paths.delete(path)
end
In todo/lib/app/controllers/todos_controller.rb
class TodosController < ActionController::Base
def index
end
end
In todo/lib/app/views/index.html.erb
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"[url]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd[/url]">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Todos:</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style="color: green" id="flash_notice"><%= flash[:notice] %></p>
<h1>Listing Todos</h1>
</body>
</html>
In /myRailsApp/config/routes.rb
ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
# The priority is based upon order of creation: first created -> highest priority.
map.resources :todos
...
The error I get is the following:
Template is missing
Missing template todos/index.erb in view path app/views
Can anyone give me a hand up and tell me what am I doing wrong here that is causing my index.html.erb file to not render? Much appreciated!
EDIT:
I have already tried the following without success:
In /todo/lib/app/controllers/todos_controller.rb
def index
respond_to do |format|
format.html # index.html.erb
end
end
EDIT:
hakunin solved this problem. Here's the solution.
He says that I'm building a Rails engine plugin (I had no idea I was doing this), and it requires a different directory structure, one that appears like so:
File Structure
---/vendor
|---/plugins
|---/todo
|---/lib
|---/app
|---/controllers
|---todos_controller.rb
|---/models
|---todos.rb
|---/views
|---/todos
|---index.html.erb
|---todo_lib.rb
|---/rails
|---init.rb
This required the following changes:
In todo/lib/todo_lib.rb
%w{ models controllers views }.each do |dir|
# Include the paths:
# /Users/Me/Sites/myRailsApp/vendor/plugins/todo/app/models
# /Users/Me/Sites/myRailsApp/vendor/plugins/todo/app/controllers
# /Users/Me/Sites/myRailsApp/vendor/plugins/todo/app/views
path = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '../app', dir))
# We add the above path to be included when Rails boots up
$LOAD_PATH << path
ActiveSupport::Dependencies.load_paths << path
ActiveSupport::Dependencies.load_once_paths.delete(path)
end
The change made above is in the line: path = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(FILE), '../app', dir)). [Ignore the boldened 'FILE', this is an issue with the website].
Running script/server will render the index.html.erb page under todo/app/views/todos.