[Facebooker-talk] Problems with *_path() and *_url() helpers when using Publisher

[Mike Mangino]

Does this work for non-singular resources? I always use the plural,  
and don't currently have any problems. I'll try to take a look at this  
during the week.

Mike

On Apr 7, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Nick Holland wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> We are running Rails 2.0.2, so unfortunately that doesn't seem to be
> the issue... but hopefully we are experiencing the same issue,
> regardless of the rails version so we both can get it resolved!
>
> Take care,
> Nick Holland
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com 
> > wrote:
>> Nick, what version of Rails are you using?  I've run into issues in  
>> this
>> same area under Rails 1.2.x.  My app will be moved to Rails 2 in  
>> the future,
>> but it's a serious undertaking for us, so I haven't been able to  
>> move it and
>> test out whether Rails 2 solves these problems.  Thus, I'm  
>> interested to
>> know your Rails version and if that may play into it or not.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Nick Holland <nick.a.holland at gmail.com 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>> Mike,
>>>
>>> As requested, here is the code involved:
>>>
>>> routes.rb
>>> --------------------------
>>>
>>> ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
>>> map.resource :home
>>> end
>>>
>>> event_publisher.rb
>>> --------------------------
>>>
>>> class EventPublisher < Facebooker::Rails::Publisher
>>> include ActionController::UrlWriter
>>>
>>> def profile_update(uid, session)
>>>  user = Facebooker::User.new(uid, session)
>>>  send_as :profile
>>>  from user
>>>  recipients user
>>>
>>>  Facebooker::Session.current = session
>>>
>>>  profile render(:partial => 'profile/profile' )
>>> end
>>> end
>>>
>>> _profile.fbml.erb
>>> ----------------------
>>>
>>> <%= render(:partial => 'profile/style' ) %>
>>>
>>> <div id="content" class="wide">
>>> <%= link_to 'test', home_path %>
>>> </div>
>>>
>>> ----------------------
>>>
>>> Pretty basic stuff -- I hope I'm doing something thats obvious so I
>>> can get this fixed up ;) I am using resource routes throughout the
>>> rest of my code without issue. It is just partials under Publisher
>>> that fail.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nick
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com 
>>> >
>> wrote:
>>>> Can you show the exact code you are using and also let us know what
>> version
>>>> of Rails you are using?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 5, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Nick Holland wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the response Mike and Nicholaus. I apologize for the  
>>>>> delay
>>>>> in replying, but I have been deep in development mode and  
>>>>> deploying my
>>>>> Facebook Application.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was running an older version of Facebooker, so I thought I'd  
>>>>> try and
>>>>> upgrade my application today to the newest version. Happy to see  
>>>>> that
>>>>> a number of bugs have been fixed that I had money patches for,  
>>>>> but I
>>>>> still am experiencing some issues using *_path() style paths in
>>>>> partials under the Publisher framework.
>>>>>
>>>>> There has been a change in the errors I receive, though. I do not
>>>>> receive the previous error "undefined method  
>>>>> `default_url_options' for
>>>>> ActionView::Base:Class", anymore. There is a path returned, but  
>>>>> it is
>>>>> relative. I attempted modifying my code to use ":only_path =>  
>>>>> false"
>>>>> in my _path method call, to see if I'd receive a full, absolute  
>>>>> URL
>>>>> with my application path. Unfortunately, I receive an exception  
>>>>> which
>>>>> was caught by my event processor:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Missing host to link to! Please provide :host parameter or set
>>>>> default_url_options[:host]"
>>>>>
>>>>> I took a look in the publisher code and see that  
>>>>> default_url_options
>>>>> method is indeed defined and looks right. Just for laughs, I  
>>>>> copied
>>>>> this decleration into my own publisher class, to see if it would  
>>>>> work.
>>>>> I still receive the same error.
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like we are getting closer to solving the problem. I  
>>>>> hope one
>>>>> of you with some more intimaacy with this framework could assist  
>>>>> me,
>>>>> as currently I have to build all my publisher URLs in my partials
>>>>> manually as strings (yuck!).
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your assistance, I greatly appreciate it!
>>>>>
>>>>> - Nick
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Nicholaus Ames
>>>>> <nicholaus.l.ames at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Nick,
>>>>>> Did you ever get the url_helpers in there?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nick
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Nick Holland
>>>> <nick.a.holland at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am running into issues using *_path() and *_url() helpers the
>>>>>>> Facebooker Publisher framework. I encounter the following error
>> when
>>>>>>> using these helpers while *inside of a partial*:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> undefined method `default_url_options' for  
>>>>>>> ActionView::Base:Class
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've seen a few other people speak about this issue, yet I  
>>>>>>> haven't
>>>>>>> seen any resolution on the mailing list yet. Here is an example
>> stub
>>>>>>> method that I am using the partial in:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> def simple_notification(event_data, partial_name)
>>>>>>>  send_as :notification
>>>>>>>  from event_data[:user]
>>>>>>>  recipients event_data[:target_uids]
>>>>>>>  fbml render(:partial => "event/notification/" + partial_name,
>>>>>>> :event => event_data[:event])
>>>>>>> end
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Note, _path() and _url() helpers work flawlessly from the
>>>>>>> simple_notification method's context, but fails miserably inside
>> the
>>>>>>> partial. I assume this issue also exists with asset helpers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any ideas? Am I missing something?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Nick Holland.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Nicholaus Ames
>>>>>> 503-544-5813
>>>>>> ri.niculo.us
>>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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