Replace render_anywhere gem with ActionController::Renderer to support Rails 6 #55
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lib/textris/base.rb
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@danielpuglisi 👋 I just tested this PR on a rails api I am upgrading to rails 6 and renderer.render keeps returning an empty string because views are not loaded in rails apis. The controllers in rails apis inherit from ApplicationController::API instead of ApplicationController::Base. I was wondering if we could switch to using
renderer = ::ActionController::Base.renderer.new
renderer.render(
template: template_name,
layout: false,
formats: [:text],
locale: @locale,
assigns: set_instance_variables_for_rendering
)which works on both Rails apis and vanilla rails apps
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Thanks for the input @no-itsbackpack.
True, didn't think about that. I used ApplicationController as Helpers are automatically available this way.
Not sure how to achieve this with ActionController::Base though. Going back to using...
module Textris
class Base
class RenderingController < ActionController::Base
helper :all
end
# ...
def render_content
renderer = RenderingController.renderer.new
# ...... does not seem to load helpers defined in the application.
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Yea I totally didnt consider loading controller helpers, back to the drawing board 🤔
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@no-itsbackpack I'm using your fork with standard Rails 6 project (no-API) and it works without problems! Thanks for your work. |
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I'm using this fork and it seems to work great. I did have to make one change, |
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Hey there! I'd like to use Textris in a Rails 6 project. I liked a lot Textris in a Rails 5.2 project, I found it quite smart and easy to use to mirror mailer mechanisms into SMS. Do you think it's safe to use this branch in a Rails 6 production environment? Or is there any major issue that prevents this branch from being merged into the main branch and for which you'd discourage to use it? |
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@vdegove I'm using it in production. I'm not sure if this gem is actively maintained though as no one of the core team responded to this PR so far. |
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Allright, thanks for the feedback. This gem is way too practical, I'm just gonna fork your branch. I've seen that others have gone the same path even recently like here https://github.com/Semeia-io/textris… Anyway, may be just that folks at visuality.pl didn't even see the PR. @Marahin what do you think about this PR? |
I am no longer affiliated with the Open Source team at Visuality, but I will ping them on private channels to check it out. I think the code looks good and I 👍 it. |
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| formats: [:html], | |
| formats: [:text], |
:formats is [:text] ?
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Hi @Marahin : have you talked to anybody at Visuality to restart maintaining this gem? It's a shame it's not maintained anymore. Or if it's not possible for them, would someone maintain an official fork and just change the README pointing towards this fork? |
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Maybe #62 fixes the failing tests via Sidekiq here? Would love to get this merged if possible to support newer versions of Rails. I appreciate this gem and the effort that went into writing it! |
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Having problems with the gem in Rails 7 which this particular PR can resolve for so many users. |
Hi there,
Stumbled across this Gem yesterday and wanted to implement it in a Rails 6 app but had the same issue as #50 - so I created a quick PR.
Notes:
ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options || {}in favour of usingconfig/initializers/application_controller_renderer.rb. Checkout README update.MyTexter#delayed_action– not sure how to fix this though.