RESTful mixin, mixin repo?

[Mark Fredrickson]

> I'm not sure I quite understand this... what does MagicModuleIncluder
> do that simply including modules doesn't? (As in: http://
> code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/wiki/BeforeAndAfterOverrides) What
> sort of stuff do you have in mind for these components?

So, I haven't entirely got to the bottom of this yet, but let's at
some examples of include not working as I want. (As to what I want:
entire MVC stacks that I can drop into different apps - eg. a user
login engine that works in any app a /user and provides some useful
predicates - is_logged_in?, etc...)

So, I've created a little app that holds "Things." Nothing more than a
title. Super simple. Now that I have my thing engine working, I want
to incorporate it into another app. I comment out some stuff that
would seem to conflict (eg. the layout view, the Index controller,
Camping.goes :SimpleApp). You can see it here:

http://pastie.caboo.se/23577

Seems straight forward, yes?

Now let's include it in another app. We take a direct approach and
include each part of the MVC stack in the appropriate part of our app.
See the "Simpler" app here:

http://pastie.caboo.se/23578

Try to run it. No luck:

[mark 18:14:11 app]$ camping simple_app.rb
!! trouble loading simpleapp: [NameError] uninitialized constant Base
/Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsSept2006.locobundle/i386/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:123:in
`const_missing'
/Users/mark/Documents/Programming/Ruby/campingtest/app/simple_app.rb:13

Hmm. Strange. While I don't think it's a good idea, let's try to
uncomment the Camping.goes :SimpleApp line in our included MVC. Try to
launch. Success (or so we think). The index page works. It's all good,
right?

Let's try to look at our "things"http://localhost:3301/thing

Camping Problem!

SimpleApp::Controllers::Thing.GET

NoMethodError no such method `list_thing':
...

Uh oh. Something's borked. I haven't figured out how to solve this
problem, but I'm sure it's solvable. But you can see the problem.

Looking at the camping code itself, it clearly does some unusual stuff
to add apps to the mix. Like eval'ing a gsub version of the camping
file itself. That kind of stuff is wild, but it makes it hard to
anticipate exactly how to hook into the system.

As Jonas's emails on the subject indicate, Equipment has been
wrestling with this problem.

I'm going to keep hacking on this. Perhaps I'll have a better solution
soon. Also - feel free to point out why I'm an idiot. :-)

-Mark