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Add plugin to project settings menu

Added by John Yani at 2011-03-25 09:52 pm

Hi. I need some help with adding a plugin to project settings menu.

I've added a tab to settings page, implemented a model and overrided a ProjectsController.settings method so it defines a @plugin_model global. Now I need to write a view and a controller.

So, the question is: how to write a partial view and a controller, so I can set my model's field.

I came up with the following:

<% form_for @plugin_model do |f| >
<%= flash[:notice] %>
<%= f.label :my_string %>:
<%= f.text_field :my_string %><br />
<%= f.submit %>
< end %>

But where this form is submitted to? How to write and url for this form, so it saves my plugin_model object?
Any help?

BTW, submitted a feature request here:
https://www.chiliproject.org/issues/299


Replies (1)

RE: Add plugin to project settings menu - Added by Eric Davis at 2011-03-28 10:02 pm

John Yani wrote:

But where this form is submitted to? How to write and url for this form, so it saves my plugin_model object?

You need to create a controller and route to accept the form submission. The route will give you a url and the controller will do the actual work. At this point it's just normal Rails development so any Rails tutorial or guide should help you.

Form submission, goes to => route, sends request to => controller, does work and displays => view (or a redirect), which is sent to => browser

Eric Davis

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