Nesta CMS and Rails3 integration: menu is not working

Question

I already made some successfully experiments integrating nesta with rails 3 (see Is it possble include Nesta CMS into Rails3 application? and Nesta CMS and Rails3 integration: adding blog to an exiting rails 3 application)

But than, I needed a menu on the right side of the blog, like explained in "Working with menus"

To give it a try, I built the famous content-demo site with nesta demo:content, but all links appearing on the right side, which are coming from content-demo/menu.txt, are broken because related to the main Rails app (http://example.com) and not to the embedded nesta blog (http://example.com/blog)

Here it is my current file configs, the integration is between Rails 3.0.10 and Nesta 0.9.10 :

config/routes.rb

  match '/blog' => Nesta::App
  match '/css/*style.css' => Nesta::App
  match '/attachments/*file' => Nesta::App
  root :to => "home#index"

UPDATE:

using mount Nesta::App, :at => '/blog' instead of match '/blog' => Nesta::App rich the same result ...

config/initializers/nesta.rb

require "nesta/env"
require "nesta/app"
Nesta::Env.root = ::File.expand_path("../../nesta-blog", File.dirname(__FILE__))
Nesta::App.root = ::File.expand_path("../../nesta-blog", File.dirname(__FILE__))

nesta-blog/config/config.yml

...
content: nesta-blog/content-demo
...

I thought was depending by how nesta built the relative path of menu's liks and that was depending on base_url method in nesta-0.9.10/lib/nesta/app.rb.

Than I tried unpacking locally nesta-0.9.10 changing url = "http://#{request.host}" in url = "http://#{request.host}/blog":

  def base_url
    url = "http://#{request.host}/blog"
    request.port == 80 ? url : url + ":#{request.port}"
  end

put gem 'nesta', :path => 'vendor/gems/nesta-0.9.10' on Gemfile and build update nesta but no, doesn't work.

UPDATE:

Also few tries with Nesta::Menu.for_path('/') in ./vendor/gems/nesta-0.9.10/lib/nesta/app.rb

  def set_common_variables
    @menu_items = Nesta::Menu.for_path('/')
    @site_title = Nesta::Config.title
    set_from_config(:title, :subtitle, :google_analytics_code)
    @heading = @title
  end

didn't get results.

My nesta-blog/content-demo/menu.txt don't currently refers to the home page (like in default generation with nesta demo:content):

marking-up-pages
  examples/using-markdown
  examples/using-textile
  examples/using-haml
  adding-attachments
menu-editing
publishing-a-feed

and if I try putting on top something like :

/ or /blog or /nesta-blog the menu disappear ...

So my question is, how does it work ? Do you have any suggestion / workaround ?

Thanks in advance Luca G. Soave

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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Did you try mounting Nesta, instead of justing matching a route (as described in Nesta CMS and Rails3 integration: adding blog to an exiting rails 3 application)?

I would expect that mount in routes.rb might deal with all these relative path issues for you.

I think stack overflow is great, but I suspect you'll do better with this stuff on the Nesta mailing list. The number of people who use Nesta who see your posts on here will be relatively small...

edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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answered Sep 11 '11 at 20:55

Graham Ashton

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Yes I tried. mount Nesta::App, :at => '/blog' works the same way and this sound strange to me too after I read the following article: http://library.edgecase.com/Rails/2011/01/04/rails-routing-and-rack-endpoints.html but the two ways don't affect menu's relative path. Moreover everything else works fine ... – Luca G. Soave Sep 11 '11 at 23:28
... i use mount Nesta::App, :at => '/blog' and not mount Nesta::App, :at => '/' because I already have root :to => "home#index" which route the main Rails3 app ... – Luca G. Soave Sep 11 '11 at 23:33

Nesta CMS and Rails3 integration: menu is not working

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