need help on writing a plugin

rubyonrails-talk
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Hey all,

I've just "script/generate plugin my_plugin" and I would like to "overload" one of my view. Say I have app/views/sessions/new.html.erb and I would like to rewrite that file without touching it using the plugin. Any idea how to do this? I would also like to do the same thing with models and controllers of my application. I couldn't find a tutorial about this so I would appreciate it if you could point me to one.

Thanks in advance

Pat

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It sounds like you're looking for some of the functionality that the engines plugin provides. You can find out if it's suitable for your particular project here: http://rails-engines.org.

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ActionController::Base.view_paths might be what you're looking for.

For models, you would want to push your plugin's model directory in very front of config.load_paths

However, I don't buy the idea of having same models at 2 places.