[Rails] Re: View Path and Plugins

2010-07-08 Thread Greg Willits
Frederick Cheung wrote: > I believe these days that if you plugin contains a folder called app, > itself containing a folder called views then that will be added to the > view paths automatically That worked. I went back and tried the unshift thing too, this time with a path that mirrored /app/vi

[Rails] Re: View Path and Plugins

2010-07-08 Thread Frederick Cheung
On Jul 6, 10:49 pm, Greg Willits wrote: > > I tried this with no joy: > > plugin_folder = "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}" > ActionController::Base.view_paths.unshift File.join(plugin_folder, > 'views') > How are you trying to use the views in your apps ? If my memory is correct, setting view_paths me

[Rails] Re: View Path and Plugins

2010-07-06 Thread Marnen Laibow-Koser
Greg Willits wrote: > I have a plugin. I want to include some baseline views for the app code > to "just use" -- meaning no need to copy files into /app, and no need to > specify a path in the controller. > > Is that possible? If I *have* to add something to the controller, that's > fine. The more