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Andrea Campolonghi
Andrea Campolonghi

Reputation: 580

Rails 3 engine application controller

I have a rails engine that expose the following controller:

class ActsAsAssets::AssetsController < ApplicationController
..........

The main application uses devise into the ApplicationController. From the main application I use to extend the Engine Controller normally like this:

class MainApplicationController < ActsAsAssets::AssetsController
.......

What I was aspecting is that MainApplicationController was extending the main application ApplicationController via the engine. Note that the engine does not have any ApplicationController so I was expecting ActsAsAssets::AssetsController < ApplicationController to actually extend the ApplicationController of the rails app that uses the engine.

Looks like I am wrong.

Any suggestion? Basically what I want to achieve is that a controller from my main app extends a rails engine controller that extends the main ApplicationController cause does not have one inside the engine.

Hoper is clear.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 913

Answers (1)

Chris Peters
Chris Peters

Reputation: 18090

Change the declaration to look like this:

class ActsAsAssets::AssetsController < ::ApplicationController

That instructs the controller to extend the non-namespaced ApplicationController from the main application.

Upvotes: 3

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