From contact at robl.me  Mon Dec 29 10:51:07 2008
From: contact at robl.me (Rob Lacey)
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:51:07 +0000
Subject: [Apotomo-talk] Trouble getting started
Message-ID: <4958F1EB.2040600@robl.me>

Hi there,

I've just come across the Apotomo project and it seems like quite an exciting prospect. I'm very keen to give this a try in my new project. I came across a similar R&D framework recently which I have a great deal of trouble with but hopefully this will be more fruitful.

I am however getting the following error immediately when I try incorporating the counter example in my existing controller (the project is Rails 2.2.2), am I missing a require somewhere? Shouldn't this be included by default after I've install the plugin and restarted?

  uninitialized constant Apotomo::ControllerHelper

Once I've got this sorted, how would you then incorporate the widget into a normal view, simply by using render_cell(blah, blah)?

Many thanks

RobL


From apotonick at gmail.com  Mon Dec 29 13:16:50 2008
From: apotonick at gmail.com (Nick Sutterer)
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:16:50 +0100
Subject: [Apotomo-talk] Trouble getting started
In-Reply-To: <4958F1EB.2040600@robl.me>
References: <4958F1EB.2040600@robl.me>
Message-ID: <e2cf7aef0812291016r65b52434w750a9504d0f9fb06@mail.gmail.com>

hey rob!

> I've just come across the Apotomo project and it seems like quite an
> exciting prospect. I'm very keen to give this a try in my new project. I
> came across a similar R&D framework recently which I have a great deal of
> trouble with but hopefully this will be more fruitful.
>
what's R&D?

> I am however getting the following error immediately when I try
> incorporating the counter example in my existing controller (the project is
> Rails 2.2.2), am I missing a require somewhere? Shouldn't this be included
> by default after I've install the plugin and restarted?
>
>  uninitialized constant Apotomo::ControllerHelper
>
currently you need the engines plugin in Rails to use Apotomo. see
http://github.com/apotonick/cells -> Installation -> Engines
for directions.

you may also join the irc-channel #cells to get my help directly!

> Once I've got this sorted, how would you then incorporate the widget into a
> normal view, simply by using render_cell(blah, blah)?
>
#render_cell is for cells, to include widgets in your page you would
use #act_as_widget in the controller action. just take the counter
example and play around with it. again- join the channel to catch me
live.

thanks for your interest.
cheers,

nick

> Many thanks
>
> RobL
>
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From apotonick at gmail.com  Mon Dec 29 13:51:45 2008
From: apotonick at gmail.com (Nick Sutterer)
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:51:45 +0100
Subject: [Apotomo-talk] Trouble getting started
In-Reply-To: <495919AB.5070403@robl.me>
References: <4958F1EB.2040600@robl.me>
	<e2cf7aef0812291016r65b52434w750a9504d0f9fb06@mail.gmail.com>
	<495919AB.5070403@robl.me>
Message-ID: <e2cf7aef0812291051o7c8272bejbf5a855dc3b4b64a@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Rob Lacey <contact at robl.me> wrote:
> Nick Sutterer wrote:
>>
>> hey rob!
>>
>>
>
> Hey Nick, thats for getting back to me so quickly.
>
>>> I've just come across the Apotomo project and it seems like quite an
>>> exciting prospect. I'm very keen to give this a try in my new project. I
>>> came across a similar R&D framework recently which I have a great deal of
>>> trouble with but hopefully this will be more fruitful.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> what's R&D?
>
> Sorry I meant Research and Development, it was a framework called Brix. I
> went for an interview with the company that developed it (PlayLouder) and it
> certainly seemed interesting. But they abandoned Rails for their own
> framework, which I guess isn't without its problems. No disrespect to
> anybody, it seems that Apotomo is a much cleaner solution so far and of
> course Rails so alot more familiar to me.
>
ok, i've heard of Brix, sounded interesting but i never looked closer
to it as i like the Rails/Merb frameworks too much.
> Thanks for that, I did manage to get the counter example working in the end
> by fumbling about, pity I didn't find the part of the docs I was looking for
> earlier :S Of course now I want to embed this into one of my existing views
> so that I can effectively do parital updates of the page. The render_widget
> call is just a controller helper so you have to assign that to an instance
> variable and then display that within a view. Is there are reason why its
> not a view helper as well? That doesn't really feel right to me actually
> although assigning a rendered cell to a variable and then displaying it
> seems odd too. I guess this is all new.
>
you could of course call
helper Apotomo::ControllerHelper
to make #render_widget in your view callable.
be warned that #render_widget just handles, well, rendering. the event
processing must be handled seperately.
the current Apotomo-version is aimed to run with #act_as_widget only
(which does both), but there's an example on
http://github.com/apotonick/apotomo_sample_app  in the controller. but
i can help you with that.

> At the moment I render a show page for Artist (I am building a small music
> site, and I intend to add for example release information), for now I will
> also render the counter as I would a normal cell. When I do that the '--'
> and '++' state changes don't go the the correct url, they attempt to access
> the current url with the params to update the counter but of course my
> 'show' action isn't the widget action and so nothing happens.
>
see above, that's because you need to activate event processing also
in the controller!


nick

From contact at robl.me  Wed Dec 31 07:54:42 2008
From: contact at robl.me (Rob Lacey)
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:54:42 +0000
Subject: [Apotomo-talk] Namespace clashes and contributing
Message-ID: <495B6B92.90701@robl.me>

Hi there,

After expanding on the basic Counter example I've started playing with 
grabbing variable numbers of results from my database to try and create 
a more real life example I can work with. This initially worked late 
last night and when I came back to it this morning it was unexpectedly 
broken. It seems my choice of class 'Event' for the app I am building 
clashes with the Apotomo::Event as it is not explicitly named by its 
full namespace in two files. After making the following changes my app 
worked fine again.

My question really is can I and how do I commit this back to Apotomo 
since I guess this problem could re-occur for other people. I'd like to 
contribute my tuppence worth if it helps. Also when I went to run the 
test suite from

rake test::plugins:all PLUGIN=apotomo

It only picked up one file, since only one of the unit tests ends in 
_test.rb, most of them are test_<blah>.rb. Should this be updated?

All the best

RobL

rl at bloodandguts:~/src/bd$ git diff vendor/plugins/apotomo/
diff --git 
a/vendor/plugins/apotomo/app/helpers/apotomo/controller_helper.rb 
b/vendor/plugins/apotomo/app/helpers/apotomo/controller_helper.rb
index 68bb30f..90c06a2 100644
--- a/vendor/plugins/apotomo/app/helpers/apotomo/controller_helper.rb
+++ b/vendor/plugins/apotomo/app/helpers/apotomo/controller_helper.rb
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ module Apotomo
      
      
       source  = tree.find_by_id(params[:source])
-      evt     = Event.new(params[:type], source.name) # type is :invoke 
per default.
+      evt     = Apotomo::Event.new(params[:type], source.name) # type 
is :invoke per default.
      
       ### NOTE: this will be removed when the WidgetTree is fully dynamic.
       if evt.type == :invoke
diff --git a/vendor/plugins/apotomo/lib/apotomo/event_aware.rb 
b/vendor/plugins/apotomo/lib/apotomo/event_aware.rb
index ebee772..f987e8c 100644
--- a/vendor/plugins/apotomo/lib/apotomo/event_aware.rb
+++ b/vendor/plugins/apotomo/lib/apotomo/event_aware.rb
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ module Apotomo
     def trigger(event_type, source_id=self.name)
       puts "triggered #{event_type.inspect} in #{source_id.inspect}"
      
-      event = Event.new
+      event = Apotomo::Event.new
       event.type = event_type
       event.source_id = source_id