#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 about 1 year 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 about 1 year 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 about 1 year 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 about 1 year ago

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

Radha about 1 year ago

and project started!!!!
The one ryan mentioned

Mariusz Wyrozębski about 1 year 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 about 1 year ago

woaaa you made a very good screencast, thanks ;)

Alex V Bush about 1 year ago

In your face PHP developers!!! :D

Rutger Karlsson about 1 year ago

Great cast ryan. Any plans on BrowserCMS?

There is a nice (somewhat oudated) comparsion here

Nicolai Schulten about 1 year 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 about 1 year 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 about 1 year 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 about 1 year 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 about 1 year ago

This works perfectly.

Luke Hamilton 10 months ago

Thanks heaps!

bckslsh about 1 year 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 11 months 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 7 months ago

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

rake refinery:override view=refinery/_head

Mark Kremer 7 months ago

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

lanceschi 3 months 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.

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