#333 Extending Refinery CMS pro

Mar 14, 2012 | 14 minutes | Views, Plugins

Here I continue on Refinery and show how to add database-backed content by generating an engine. You will also learn how to override Refinery's views and controllers in this episode.

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Joe Sak over 12 years ago

Rails 3.2 migration conventions work, as well. String is default

rails g refinery:engine piano name dimensions manufactured_on:date upright:boolean photo:image description:text

Sindre Moen over 12 years ago

I don't think it's as much of a convention as it is a convenience. There's no harm in appending :string when running the generator.

Radha over 12 years ago

Joe please post here if the bug Ryan mentioned has been fixed, im about to try Refinary , im just waiting for that fix.

Joe Sak over 12 years ago

The page parts bug is fixed in 2.0.2. Which bug are you asking about?

Radha over 12 years ago

and project started!!!!
The one ryan mentioned

Mariusz Wyrozębski over 12 years ago

It is all fine until you try to integrate it as a part of existing app. I'm working on it at the moment for a while.

Luis Ezcurdia over 12 years ago

woaaa you made a very good screencast, thanks ;)

Alex V Bush over 12 years ago

In your face PHP developers!!! :D

Rutger Karlsson over 12 years ago

Great cast ryan. Any plans on BrowserCMS?

There is a nice (somewhat oudated) comparsion here

Nicolai Schulten over 12 years ago

Nice one!

Has someone tried to render refinerycms views throughout backbone.js like Ryan showed for "normal" Rails apps a few episodes before?

Chris Simpson over 12 years ago

Is there documentation on the engine generator? I was trying to lookup how I could specify a field type for uploading files instead of photos.

nm... I should look around better
http://refinerycms.com/guides/multiple-resources-in-an-extension

Brett over 12 years ago

Has anyone else run into a mass assignment error when trying to create a new piano?

ActiveModel::MassAssignmentSecurity::Error in Refinery::Pianos::Admin::PianosController#create

Can't mass-assign protected attributes: name, dimensions, manufactured_on(1i), manufactured_on(2i), manufactured_on(3i), upright, photo_id, description, position

Here's screenshot of error:
http://grab.by/cWGE

If anyone has an idea how to solve this, would be appreciated.

Pavel over 12 years ago

Brett, i fixed that by adding next line in pianos.rb file

          ruby
        
attr_accessible :name, :dimensions, :manufactured_on, :upright, :photo_id, :description, :position

stevenshelby over 12 years ago

This works perfectly.

Luke Hamilton over 12 years ago

Thanks heaps!

bckslsh over 12 years ago

Any idea on how to have the pianos available to other pages, specifically the home page? The examples on the Refinery site for their engines are a little hard to follow.

Rob Yurkowski over 12 years ago

The best way to do it is to use a decorator as Ryan has done with the authenticate method. To wit:

          ruby
        
Refinery::PagesController.class_eval_do
  before_filter :find_pianos, :only => [:home]

  def find_pianos
    @pianos = ::Refinery::Pianos::Piano.all
  end
  private :find_pianos
end

Claudio Beffa about 12 years ago

There is a typo in the show notes, it's missing the underscore:

rake refinery:override view=refinery/_head

Mark Kremer about 12 years ago

I've corrected the show notes, thanks for letting us know!

lanceschi almost 12 years ago

Pretty new to Refinery world. Any clue on how to turn on multilanguage engines support to Refinery? Locales yml files are correctly generated. Thanks.

Alex over 11 years ago

How do I allow a non technical user to change a products order form?

like add products, and change prices?

jo W over 11 years ago

i managed to integrate refinery cms with existing rails App.

my issue is that all the existing pages before can not be displayed on the refinery cms pages (backend).

Any help on how to override will be highly appreciated

jo W about 11 years ago

I was able to resolve this thanks to all that contributed to this

PAL about 7 years ago

Thank you for sharing with us, its nice post, you done great job.