[Rails] [ANN] MenuEngine

Fri Jul 28 03:48:32 GMT 2006

Hi there, your engine seems really nice, but I can't get it to work.

I followed the little tutorial at the link you gave but the call <%= 
menu :menu => "my_menu" %> outputs an empty <script></script>.

Here is the code I used (I am trying to do some kind of bug tracking 
tool. And yes the controller and action are valid)
application_helper.rb
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module ApplicationHelper
  include MenuHelper

  def my_menu
    item_0 = MenuItem.new( :text=>"Menu Item 0", :controller=>"bug" )
    item_1 = MenuItem.new( :text=>"Menu Item 1", :controller=>"bug", 
:action=>"show" )
    item_2 = MenuItem.new( :text=>"Menu Item 2", :controller=>"bug", 
:action=>"show"  )
    item_0.items << item_1 << item_2
    item_3 = MenuItem.new( :text=>"Menu Item 3", :controller=>"bug" )
    return [item_0, item_3]
  end
end

environment.rb
-------------------------------
module UserEngine
  config :access_control, false
end
Engines.start :menu # or :menu_engine

And my basic layout:
application.rhtml
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<html>
    <head>
        <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>
        <%= engine_stylesheet "menu_engine" %>
        <%= engine_javascript "menu_engine" %>           
    </head>

    <body>
        <div id="top_menu">
            <%= menu :menu => "my_menu" %>   
        </div>

All this outputs only
...
<div id="top_menu">
<script></script>
</div>
...

What in the world am I doing wrong???

Thank you for your time,

Jd

P.S.  Yes I did install the menu_engine engine.

Max Muermann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> MenuEngine is a small Rails engine that can generate templated
> drop-down DHTML menus commonly used for web site navigation. Supports
> creation of menus from a YAML file, from code and from pre-configured
> HTML. Optionally integrates with UserEngine for authorization.
>
> http://www.muermann.org/ruby/menu_engine
>
> Project page:
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/menuengine
>
> This is my first attempt to release a Rails plugin, so please let me
> know if I got the distribution wrong and you have installation
> problems.
>
> Cheers,
> Max
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