From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-03-10T13:27:40-08:00
Subject: Re: Borges app registration

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Jim Menard (jimm@io.com) wrote:

> I'm playing with Borges, and I'm trying to understand the application
> registration process. I grepped for 'register_application' and found
> calls to register 'counter', 'rates', 'examples', 'calendar', and
> 'test'.

The application registration process is complicated :)

> The /config page lists three apps, one of which is the config app itself.=
 I
> don't see a way to add apps. Is there one?

The functionality exists to dynamically load applications, but not to
remove them, I believe I disabled both features, since reloading is not
handled very gracefully.

When writing a new application, you'll have to call
Controller#register_application.  Its arguments are a name, and an
optional session class.  Since anything you register as an application
is a subclass of Controller, you simply need to call
register_application('name') from the class you are defining.  You don't
need to register every new Controller subclass you create, only the
entry points.

The application will be mounted as 'name' under /borges.
(http://yourserver/borges/name)

For a good example, see the SushiNet example application, it should be
installed in something like:

/usr/local/share/examples/ruby/Borges/SushiNet

You want to look at StoreTask.rb, and StoreSession.rb.

> Why don't I see 'calendar', 'test', 'examples', and 'tutorial'
> in the list on the config page? Where in the code are 'rates' and
> 'counter' added (but not 'examples', 'calendar', and 'test')?

'calendar' is still broken, there's a bug with its Observer that I haven't
had the time to fix yet.  I think 'rates' is dependent upon it, and
won't work.

To load 'test', require 'Borges/Test'

To load 'examples', require 'Borges/Component/ExampleBrowser'

'counter' is added in Borges/Component/Counter, from require 'Borges'.
'rates' is added in Borges/Component/DateRangeSelector, also
from require 'Borges'. =20

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